Help Setting up WebServer (Mandrake)

[vfear]

I installed mandrake 8.1 and when I got to

http://<myip>

I get a default website . I installed all the server packages. Can anyone tell me where is the default director for which this is installed? What should I run to configure the web server and please tell me how. I need all the help I can get. Thanks

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



The Physical path associated with the root of the apache server is pointed at by the DocumentRoot directive within your httpd.conf file, i.e. /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf . In fact, everything to do with the apache config is in that file or the ones it points to - such as /etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules. This is the main peculiarity of the way Mandrake package apache - they use several config files whereas everyone else just uses httpd.conf.



You can check yourself :



$ cat /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf | grep DocumentRoot



...but I'm almost certain Mandrake use the same DocumentRoot as redhat which is /var/

http://www/html.

So, that means that the default page at

http://localhost/index.html

is physically at /var/

http://www/html/index.html

As to configuring it - if you don't fancy just editing httpd.conf and restarting the server then you could try webmin which is a browser based admin tool for various servers at

http://localhost:10000

(assuming you have it installed) or maybe comanche from covalent -->

http://www.covalent.net/projects/comanche/

Of course, the full set of docs is at

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/

Hope this helps

 

[vfear]

Where can you change the path at where the server pulls the site from right now its set to /var/

http://www/html

how can I change that. When I want to ftp to that directory how do I restrict the permissions ??

THanks so much

 

[ifincham]

Hi,







To change it from /var/

http://www/html

you just use a regular text editor on the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and change the line like :







DocumentRoot &quot;/var/

http://www/html&quot;

to







DocumentRoot &quot;/home/httpd/

http://www&quot;

or whatever else you want.







Then either restart the server with :







# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart







or simply cause it to reload its config on the fly with :







# killall -HUP httpd







(You must do one of those - apache doesn't just automatically recognise you changed the config file)





On the ftp, thats outside of apache and is a subject in its own right. If you use the wu-ftpd server (not sure if thats the Mandrake default) then, out of the box, it works with the regular linux permissions. So a normal linux userid can login via ftp and have their own permissions similar to if they logged on directly. Depends what you want really - if its highly restricted ftp you need to set up a 'chroot jail' such that the view of the real directory structure is changed for the ftp user to make their '/' really somewhere lower down the tree like /home/joeuser' instead.







Regards