RedHat/Apache - Website Setup - What am I missing?

[csirman]

I've got a RedHat 8.0 Linux box runing the latest
version of Apache. I'm trying to setup a new user/website.
So far creating the user/website is no problem, but I can't
hit the site from the browser. What am I missing?? This is
what I'm doing:

I have a website registered:

http://www.getinvest.com

it is
pointing to my box. If I browse to it before doing the
below, I get the index.html page I have sitting in
/var/

http://www/index.html.

That works great.

What I want to do is setup a user called getinvest and
put the website in getinvest's home directory so when
I browse to

http://www.getinvest.com

Apache is serving the page:
/home/getinvest/website/index.html

Here is what I'm doing:

#Start in /home as a user with root privledges

#Create the user and assign them to their group and the
#apache group
/usr/sbin/useradd getinvest -G apache

#Create the user's password
passwd getinvest

#Create the subdirectorie under their home directory
cd getinvest
mkdir website


#FTP to the box as getinvest from another box and
#upload a simple file called index.html into the
#website directory. This works great.


#Add the website dir to the apache group
chown -R apache.apache website

#Change the permissions so apache/getinvest have
#access to the files
chmod -R 2770 website


#This is my httpd.conf file
<VirturalHost 76.30.132.66>

ServerName

http://www.getinvest.com

ServerAdmin webmaster@getinvest.com

DocumentRoot /home/getinvest/website

</VirturalHost>


#Restart the web server
/usr/sbin/httpd -k restart


I would expect at this point I should be able to
browse to

http://www.getinvest.com

and be shown

/home/getinvest/website/index.html

I would also expect that I should be able to
browse to:

http://76.30.132.66/~getinvest/website/index.html

I can't do either! What have I missed?

Thanks!

 

[sarm]

I can get to your site-

This is getinvest.com Web site
It was created on 2003-02-06-16-47

 

[RhythmAce]

It seems to be working fine. You may have to clear the cache in you browser if youve been there before you made the changes.

 

[csirman]

That's because I fixed it!

Actually there were several minor issues with the above. Corrected here:

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#Start in /home as a user with root privledges

#Create the user and assign them to their group and the
#apache group
#/usr/sbin/useradd getinvest -G apache
#CHANGED - No need to add to the apache group
/usr/sbin/useradd getinvest

#Create the user's password
passwd getinvest

#Create the subdirectories under their home directory
cd getinvest
mkdir website

#FTP to the box as getinvest from another box and
#upload a simple file called index.html into the
#website directory. This works great.

#Add the website dir to the apache group
#chown -R apache.apache website
#CHANGED - ChangeOwner to getinvest full/apache read/exec
chown -R getinvest.apache website

#Change the permissions so apache/getinvest have
#access to the files
chmod -R 2770 website


#This is my httpd.conf file

#Added Next Line
NameVirtualHost 76.30.132.66

<VirtualHost 76.30.132.66> #Virtual was spelled VirtuRal

ServerName

http://www.getinvest.com

ServerAdmin webmaster@getinvest.com

DocumentRoot /home/getinvest/website

#Added Next Line so index.html would come up
#without specifing

http://www.getinvest/index.html

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

</VirtualHost> #Virtual was spelled VirtuRal


#Restart the web server
/usr/sbin/httpd -k restart

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I'm all set now.. just need to figure out how to limit the user when they FTP in. I don't want them to go up or see up the directory tree, only down. Guess I'll move that question to another forum.

 

[RhythmAce]

Try ProFTPD. It is setup to jail your users by default.