On Wednesday 02 March 2005 00:18, James A. Feister wrote: > Developing a web page that uses http and cgi. > have a full install of fc3. > Am trying to set up my box so that I may localy > develop the website in my /home/james/www/ folder with > all modifications done directly in that folder. I can > only test the cgi scripts if they are run on a server. > But to do that I would have to copy the files to my > /var/www/html dir everytime I updated something. How > can I set up a hostname like ´seaport´ that I would > type into my browser and bring up the site I am > working on in my /home/james/www/ dir. > Any insite would be helpfull. Hello, Please read up the manual on apache configuration at the Apache website. If this is only a local server, you can change the the "DocumentRoot" (that's the keyword you're looking for) to point to /home/james/www/ . Make sure that you don't accidentally expose the stuff you don't want to expose to the outside world (ie. net) RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT/M/MU/P/S d-(++) s: a-- C++(+++) UL++++ P-- L+++>++++ E- W+++ N+ o? K- w--- !O M- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X R- tv+ b++>+++ DI D(+) G e++>++++ h+(*) r++ y->++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
