Apache question

[SilvrT]

hiya... noobee here.

Get Fedora 11 and Apache installed. Open web browser and enter http://localhost and I get a "Fedora Test Page" that shows Apache is working (according to the info on the page). It says to put my web documents in /var/www/html/ ... however, as a user I cannot access it (put anything there) and I can't change the permissions (belongs to root) ... any assistance would be appreciated as I'd like to run this as an intranet web server in our small ( <100 users) company.

Thanks

[jpollard]

You will have to go to the apache configuration and enable the user directory configuration in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf. By default it is disabled.

Once that is enabled you will be able to reach a users html directory by http://host/~username/

[SilvrT]

You will have to go to the apache configuration and enable the user directory configuration in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf. By default it is disabled.

Once that is enabled you will be able to reach a users html directory by http://host/~username/

Thanks for the response -but- being a noob, I have no clue what code in that file to change or what to change it to. Could you (or someone) be a bit more specific (sample of code that needs to be changed and what to change it to)

Thanks

[SilvrT]

Got it sorted out.

I figured out how to log in as root and then I allowed "Other's" permissions on the folder.

Kinda crazy the a person can't (by default) log in as root via the GUI login screen but I soon learned how to change that!

[CiaW]

I would suggest that instead of allowing 'others' permission -- especially write permission, because that makes it 'world writeable'; you create a group that includes yourself and whatever other users may need to be able to configure things, as well as apache, and then change the group ownership (chgrp command).

I know the whole topic of permissions took me a while to get straight, but it's important if you're dealing with web sites and that sort of thing.

[SilvrT]

I would suggest that instead of allowing 'others' permission -- especially write permission, because that makes it 'world writeable'; you create a group that includes yourself and whatever other users may need to be able to configure things, as well as apache, and then change the group ownership (chgrp command).

I know the whole topic of permissions took me a while to get straight, but it's important if you're dealing with web sites and that sort of thing.

Good point... I'll work on that. For what it's worth tho, this box will run an Intranet only and sits behind our corporate firewall so is not visible to the outside world.

[jpollard]

Thanks for the response -but- being a noob, I have no clue what code in that file to change or what to change it to. Could you (or someone) be a bit more specific (sample of code that needs to be changed and what to change it to)

Thanks

The file itself contains the directions.