Re: [LUG] apache web server adding pages as a normal user

[Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Waters wrote:

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> Paul Sutton wrote:
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> > 1.  I have set up apache and my doc root is /var/www/
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> > Now, as I am normally logged in as myself I can't save files to this
> > folder,  what is the proper way to allow me to add file
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> Any way that works will do. Typically you want the Apache user to have
> read (but usually not write - there are exceptions).
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> > on a development point of view, I could develop stuff, locally. then
> > move the final set of files, to /var/www/
> > (this can be done with a simple shell script, run as root under su )
> >
> > According to the read me user directories are enabled, only I can't find
> > public_html, within my user directory,  should I create this,
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> Yes - just do it.
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> > once I have doen this I take it it's just a case of pointing mozilla at
> > my local public_html directory.
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So if I have called my desktop DURON1600, I dont' see to have a domain 
name but I am not on a network just a single user computer connected to 
the net, I probably have got a domain name but don't know what it is.

if I type

http://DURON1600/myusername/

if I do this, it changes the case to lowercase, so I get duron1600, 
(does this matter)
I have added html file to the public_html directory,  but typing the 
above in mozilla it can't find the file, 

Have I got the hostname part right?


Paul

> Usually http://hostname/~username/ will get the public_html directory of
> "username".
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