Configuring Apache for users

[Jza]

I use web applications for my personal desktop use. However when I tried to change mandriva 2006 I format my root partition and then I realized that I have delete everything on my /var/www/html.

 

I dont wan't to happen that again and I want to move my DocumentRoot to a remote harddrive. So I want to know how can I do this. I want to change the httpd_conf however I haven't had any success.

 

Can anyone give me an advice on how to set up my web apps on my home.

 

I also went through the mcc and chose the apache server configuration but didn't have much luck around that. Because I choose to use public_html but I still couldnt publish my thing.

[crac]

I also went through the mcc and chose the apache server configuration but didn't have much luck around that. Because I choose to use public_html but I still couldnt publish my thing.

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The problem here could be some permission rights you have to set. Apache is configured by default to allow the usage of ~/public_html. Be aware that apache user has to be able to read that directory. Either you

 

chown -R YOUR_USER:apache ~/public_html

 

or

 

chmod g+rx ~/public_html (and make sure all files are readable by apache)

 

You can gather more information about your specific problem by analyzing /var/log/httpd/error_log.

[Guest matthiar]

I just did the same thing.

You can:

 

1.create a directory www_root under you home directory

2. chown to apache/apache

3. open it wide up 777

4. comment out these lines from /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf

 

#Restricted set op options

Comment out Line 36-42

 

5. Set your DocumentRoot to /home/myName/www_root in these two files:httpd2-perl.conf and httpd.conf

 

 

Worked for me

Of course only recommended for usage at home, not for running a public server, but that's another topic.

btw

This used to be a lot easier@!

[geekbrains]

Dude,

 

There are a couple of ways to overcome this situation,

 

1. To have a separate /var partition defined (useful when your log files @ /var/log eat up your hdd and leave your machine unbootable)

 

2. As suggested by matthiar n crac, share your home directory with a special folder for www.

 

3. In my home I'm running a couple of test sites each mounted on an individual HDD (for large database testing and good I/O) and the document root appropriately set on apache httpd.conf.

 

The possibilities are countless in Linux:D

 

:)