Re: [sheflug] Apache, shtml and php config. problem

[Ruth Gunstone <ruth [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <44E04916.10303 [at] zen.co.uk>
          Lesley Binks <lesley.binks [at] zen.co.uk> wrote:


[snip]
> 
> You might also want to be aware of the apache documentation which is
> usually installed with apache.  I have it installed on Linux and BSD
> boxes and SSI's are listed on the front page.  Start your server up and
> try this link : http://localhost/manual/howto/ssi.html which you might
> find looks remarkably similar to
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/ssi.html

Indeed it does. We live and learn :-)

PHP and SHTML are now working fine - thanks to all for your help! :-)

> Just for what it's worth (which probably isn't very much) I don't
> believe in this 'thou shalt not edit the config files' vein of thought
> at all.  Apache 2.0 has heavily reorganised the config files but I
> personally feel very very free to edit what the hell I want to on my own
> non-production machines and I'll recompile the whole lot if I feel like
> it too tyvm :).

Well I wouldn't go as far as a recompile, (mainly because I wouldn't 
have a clue how or why to, anyway!), but on a /personal/ machine on a 
/private/ network, I must say I can't see any harm either. That said, 
I also respect the "purists'" attitude of doing things the 'right 
way'. One day, I *might* have to alter a setting on a /real/ 
web-server and I'd be foolish to be so cavalier then! :-)

> I tried Ubuntu early on, it's nice enough but I port scanned the box and
> found an open port < 1024.  Posted somewhere on an ubuntu list and they
> said 'they needed this port open for things they had to do'.  Not the
> exact words but that was the essence of the reply.  They were no more
> specific than that so ... with one root controlled port open and one
> root account they'd attempted to make inaccessible (but easily got
> round), against a load of distros that don't do that, I decided not to
> pursue Ubuntu any further.

That's really interesting!

I actually chose Ubuntu because it loaded readily onto my laptop, and 
onto a Dell PC at work, and even onto an old slot-loading iMac!! 
(eventually). That's when I decided on it as my 'base system', for my 
renewed attack of the Linux learning-curve!
Fortunately, my Ubuntu machine is behind my router, so according to 
"Shields Up!", It's practically invisible!

My 'other' machine, the one I'm typing from now, doesn't run Windows 
/or/ Linux /or/ MacOS, so is to all intents 'invulnerable' to all 
those nasties out there :-)

TTFN!

-- 
Ruth Gunstone

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