Hello there are many good books on Apache and many tutorials on
www.webmonkey.com and even www.apache.org which cover in great depths the stuff
you typed out below
Yes, you should leave your DocumentRoot to /home/httpd/html because It is
important to standardize things.
And if you want to allow users to run cgi in there home directory look for a
tool called cgiwrap in your search engine. I believe the latest version is
version 3.6.3.
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Alan Mead wrote:
> At 09:21 AM 6/14/00 , you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Before I start 'messing' with Apache , i want some advice :
> >
> >What i want to do : Use my webserver as a Testing/debugging site for my
> >webpages/scripts before
> >they are uploaded to my Hosting Company's servers ...
> >
> >the Questions :
> >
> >a) Should i use the default /home/httpd/html/ directory , or use some
> >other directory ? ( I feel reassured when i see the default
> >Apache index.html :-)
> >
> >b) Should i use the virtual hosts option ?
> >
> >c) Is Samba access good enough or do i need to configure FTP access to the
> >web directory suggested in a & b above ?
> >
> >Any other advice from people who do something similar with their Apache's
> >would be most welcome !
>
> I just set up a server like this. First, I would try to make your server
> set up just like the ISP's. For example, ISP's have different policies on
> where you can put CGI scripts and if your usage disagrees with their
> policy, you may need to change a line or two in all your scripts. Some
> scripts might not work at all (e.g., if you want a dynamic homepage but
> cannot run CGI/SSI/etc in your home directory, you're screwed).
>
> Samba will work fine if you use a DOS editor that respects UNIX file
> formats. It is a recipe for frustration if you use an editor which does
> not. I like ftpedit which combines a programmer's editor with an ftp
> client (in fact, I'd like the same thing for Linux if anyone knows of such
> a beast).
>
> I cannot think of a way in which virtual hosting will matter.
>
> I would make your site directory-independent. You can most easily view it
> by setting up an alias in apache.
>
> You're also going to have to resolve names some way, have you solved
> this? I just use /etc/hosts on my linux machine and c:\windows\hosts on my
> win95 machines.
>
> -Alan
>
>
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