On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:13 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > Duncan Lithgow wrote: > > 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> Yup, i've started to learn what that's for now > thats about all there is to it for a default apache installation. Thanks, but by default I can't write to "var/www/html" surely I shouldn't edit everything as root!? What permissions should I put on that directory? Is this how it's usually done for developing websites? I just got my head around having a /home folder and now I seem to be putting my stuff all around - is there a conceptual error oging on in my expectations? Thanks for the help Mark Duncan
