html?

Printable View

Show 80 post(s) from this thread on one page

03-11-2009
Matus

Configuring Apache to link to contents on /etc/skel/html?

When i type in the address in firefox as serverip/in/username it should display the contents in that users html folder. For example: 10.0.11.25/in/username

What do i need to configure in the apache configuration to be able to have contents displayed?

I forgot to mention the distro sorry. I'm working on Ubuntu server 8.10
03-12-2009
MK27
The directory to which you refer is more likely to be /var/www/html. Apache has configuration files that control this tho, in etc/httpd (httpd is apache). Also:
- apache must be running, start it with apachectl -k start
- if you have doubts about your ip address, 127.0.0.1 will always work
03-12-2009
cyberfish

Depending on your distro (assuming you are using Linux), it can be found at a few different places with different names, but yes, there is a configuration file.

On Debian (and probably Ubuntu, too), look into /etc/apache2/sites-available. You can change the default one to point to where your files are (DocumentRoot).
03-12-2009
mike_g

You could try:

Code:

locate httpd.conf

From the shell, then have a dig around. You can set domain names to point to directories in this file, set the index page and other stuff. I guess you could even setup subdomains for each of your users if you wanted to.
03-12-2009
CornedBee

/etc/skel is the template which is copied to form the initial content of a new user's home directory. I seriously doubt you want to store anything there.

Sounds like you want /in/username to access ~username/html (i.e. the html subdirectory of the specified user).

Part of this is actually pretty easy. Just make sure mod_userdir is loaded. Then, place this configuration directive somewhere:

UserDir html

This will make requests to http://server/~username/index.html access ~username/html.
The problem here is that it's not exactly the URL you want. You can use mod_rewrite to patch that up.
03-12-2009
Matus
Quote:
Originally Posted by MK27

The directory to which you refer is more likely to be /var/www/html. Apache has configuration files that control this tho, in etc/httpd (httpd is apache). Also:

apache must be running, start it with apachectl -k start
if you have doubts about your ip address, 127.0.0.1 will always work
Thanks to all of you, i ill check the things you mentioned as soon as i get back to my server this afternoon. I'll try the various things you mentioned, and see what happens, that sounds close to what a friend told me . He said Apache is currently pointing to the www and so i needed to point it to the contents in the html directory, though which file to configure was my problem. So i'll be checking what u all mentioned.
03-12-2009
Matus

Quote:

Originally Posted by cyberfish

Depending on your distro (assuming you are using Linux), it can be found at a few different places with different names, but yes, there is a configuration file.

On Debian (and probably Ubuntu, too), look into /etc/apache2/sites-available. You can change the default one to point to where your files are (DocumentRoot).

Sorry update my thread, distro was working on is Ubuntu server 8.10, I'm gona try all you guys responses as soon as i get back to it this afternoon.

Thanks
03-12-2009
Matus

Quote:

Originally Posted by CornedBee

/etc/skel is the template which is copied to form the initial content of a new user's home directory. I seriously doubt you want to store anything there.

Sounds like you want /in/username to access ~username/html (i.e. the html subdirectory of the specified user).

Part of this is actually pretty easy. Just make sure mod_userdir is loaded. Then, place this configuration directive somewhere:

UserDir html

This will make requests to http://server/~username/index.html access ~username/html.
The problem here is that it's not exactly the URL you want. You can use mod_rewrite to patch that up.

Yours is the closest, but still i can't figure it out. I followed instructions from this site
http://www.opensourcehowto.org/how-t...rectories.html

But nada, though i think thats for windows, and I'm on ubuntu. Got any other ideas.
03-13-2009
CornedBee

Post your configuration.
03-13-2009
MK27

b/t/w I know there is an active "apache-user" forum out there, I just can't remember the address...
03-13-2009
Matus

Quote:

Originally Posted by CornedBee

Post your configuration.

This is what i had on httpd.conf

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
# UserDir disable
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

<Directory /home/*/html>
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</LimitExcept>
</Directory>

I'm also geting this when i restart apache

* Restarting web server apache2
httpd (no pid file) not running
03-13-2009
CornedBee

Well, mod_userdir is configured to look into /home/username/public_html, not /home/username/html. You need to change the UserDir directive to change that.

The restart error message means that there isn't an Apache already running, so it can't restart it.
03-13-2009
Matus

Quote:

Originally Posted by CornedBee

Well, mod_userdir is configured to look into /home/username/public_html, not /home/username/html. You need to change the UserDir directive to change that.

The restart error message means that there isn't an Apache already running, so it can't restart it.

Yea, got your point i changed it to the below, but still nothing. You can check my error at 10.0.11.25/in/alberto, or like the page says use 10.0.11.25/~alberto but still i get nothing, you can see the error by typing that. I'm trying to get over this tonigh, i've googled so much, and all point to the configurations below. By the way this file is /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
# UserDir disable
UserDir html
</IfModule>

<Directory /home/*/html>
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</LimitExcept>
</Directory>
03-13-2009
Matus

Quote:

Originally Posted by cyberfish

Depending on your distro (assuming you are using Linux), it can be found at a few different places with different names, but yes, there is a configuration file.

On Debian (and probably Ubuntu, too), look into /etc/apache2/sites-available. You can change the default one to point to where your files are (DocumentRoot).

Damn, i didn't notice this directorey. I changed the DocumentRoot directory to point to /etc/skel/html should it be that? or should it be /home/*/html

I'm not sure what should go there :(
03-13-2009
Matus

Ok i changed the DocumentRoot to /etc/skel/html since thats where the html folder that is shared located. /home/*/html was no allowed, it had that it didn't existed. with the /etc/skel/html i get the error Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /in/victor on this server.
Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.1 with Suhosin-Patch Server at 10.0.11.25 Port 80

What do i really need to do, chmod on html?

Show 80 post(s) from this thread on one page