anton wrote:Does Apache2 use more than one .conf file? IIRC the default settings are just to use httpd.conf unless you have specifically enabled certain options for the use of additional conf files.
... commonhttpd.conf
sorry guys, I was looking only at httpd2.conf - there is a whole lot more to try before hassling you again! Sorry.
Anton
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somewhere around line 2000 was the offending line... <Directory /var/www/html>
everything is disallowed up the top, so me setting it to that in httpd2.conf does squat. It has to be changed here too.
now got it going. Chris, I saw something there about running from the public_html dir but at the top of commonhttpd.conf it says something about "running as ~User" or whatever - can you explain what that means? I just have it as my DocumentRoot at the moment, but presumably that is less advised than the public_html?
Cheers to everyone for helping such a dork!
Anton
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~user setup means that /home/username/public_html is the user's own home directory, when you type in the all too familiar syntax of www.myserver.com/~username/, apache then knows to go to the public_html directory for that user and load the index page from there.
