Okay, thanks all for your suggestions. I think the problem here is that I'm used to windows where I can basically stick anything just about anywhere and it works fine. I understand why that is silly, but it's what i got used to... so lets start from scratch.
a.) where is the *most logical place* for me to put the files i want to serve and work on? b.) what will i need to change from the default configurations? ( apart from commenting out /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf )
I'd just really love to make this work soon - it's really holding up some projects... I nearly went back and got started in windows again!
Duncan
Hi Duncan,
The apache "out-of-the-box" settings will work just fine. Place your files to be served in /var/www/html and away you go.
if you are going to place your web files inside a directory that is a sub-dir of /var/www/html like /var/www/html/duncan_projects, then you will need to create a Directory container so apache knows where they are and knows exactly how it should serve those files:
<Directory "/var/www/html/duncan_projects"> AllowOverride All Options ExecCGI # if you're going to use (.pl/.cgi - cgi-bin) </Directory>
thats about all there is to it for a default apache installation. -- Mark ----------------------------------------------------------- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2, 10.0 & RH Fedora Core 3
