Michael, Thanks for the response and clarification / corrections! (I might eventually learn how to handle all this stuff.) (Just a minor nit, on my Mandrake 7.2, my pages are stored in /home/httpd (and I'm sure I didn't create or move the directory) -- maybe the change occurred with Mandkrake 8.0?)
regards, Randy Kramer Michael D. Viron wrote: > >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). Note to myself: Two things for me to remember here (at least) -- no need for the alias (if I use .../~username, and the term "document root" (I think that's related to what I was trying to say with the "htdocs" directory.) > > -- > Michael Viron > Registered Linux User #81978 > Senior Systems & Administration Consultant > Web Spinners, University of West Florida > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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