Re: [Sheflug] apache root directory

["Graham Cox" <nospam [at] shef.ac.uk>]

Check out portland(www.portland.com) for hosting websites. Mate of mine's
got his up there and it supports perl, and quite a few other things too. May
well be worth looking into...
--
Graham

An' Ye harm none,
do as Ye will.

----- Original Message -----
From: James Bruce <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>
To: Sheflug <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] apache root directory


> yay!! thanks a lot... works like a dream.... and im not so scared of
editing
> files now either...
> :)
>
> now to find some decent webspace to host it one once made, used to be f2s
but
> now that seems permanently screwed, which is a shame cos they gave me 20mb
no
> ads no banners php perl mysql and everyting for free! grrrr
>
> do you think cable modem companies *really* dont let you host a website? i
> mean, seems a lil silly...
>
> (am getting a cable connecting in my new house in august... s'gonna be a
> geeks paradise with 5 networked computers sharing a cable line... ooooh
cant
> wait, london is soooo boring right now and all the clubs are for
townies...
> sucks)
> </off topic ramblings>
>
> On Wednesday 27 June 2001 12:02, you said:
> > If you can gain access as root or the owner of httpd.conf, check that
the
> > user directory option is enabled.
> > I think the option is UserDir, this points allows you use
> > http://www.your.domain/~user/ this will point to what ever is set in
> > httpd.conf, the default is ~user/public_html.
> >
> > I think there is another option to enable, but it is clearly labelled. I
> > don't have apache to hand here.
> >
> > After saving this you will need to restart apache on my home system this
is
> > /etc/init.d/apachectl restart,
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Alastair
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: James Bruce [SMTP:aca00jab [at] sheffield.ac.uk]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:53 AM
> > > To: Sheflug
> > > Subject: [Sheflug] apache root directory
> > >
> > > here's a fairly simple problem im sure someone can help me with; im
> > > trying to test out my website locally as it includes php3 / perl kinda
> > > stuff so id
> > > like to see if that stuff works... anyhew i put the stuff in mmy
public
> > > html directory, and now i find out that the root direct to apache is
> > > somehting completely different like in usr/local or somehting i dont
have
> > > write access to as a user. how can i change it to be my public_html
> > > directory? ive tried running commanche - it asks where all the files
are
> > > stored but only lets me choose the top option which specifies /sbin/ -
> > > hwoever theres no way i can get commanche configured since the
exectuable
> > > for apache and everyting is in a directory it doesnt like (it
> > > automatically
> > > looks for it in /bin/ and mine is in /sbin somehwere..). theres a
couple
> > > more option that let you say what distribution you have apache
installed
> > > with, but those are greyed out for me for some reason... so bascially
i
> > > cant use commanche to configure it..
> > >
> > > so, with that in mind, does anyone know how i configure it manually? i
> > > dont
> > > like editing files but im guessing im gonna have to aren't i?
> > >
> > > thanks.. james.
> > >
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