>Mandrake 7.2 installs the apache executables somewhere and defaults to
>storing web pages and so forth in /home/httpd IIRC.
(7.2 and later actually defaults to /var/www/, 7.1 and earlier use
/home/httpd).
>
>If a user want to store web pages to be served in his own home
>directory, he has to do a number of things:
>   * Modify the httpd.conf file (somewhere over in /etc, IIRC) to treat
>some directory in his home directory as what I'll call an "htdocs"
>directory.  IIRC, he does this by setting an "alias" for the directory
>in the httpd.conf file.

Nope--as long as the user creates a 'public_html' directory within his
directory, he can have a website without modifying the httpd.conf file.
The url would be http://somehost.com/~username/ .  Aliases would be used
only if you wanted the url to either be something like
http://somehost.com/username/, or had other places that you were storing
web documents (other than the document root).

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Michael Viron
Registered Linux User #81978
Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida

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