Apache server stuff
 

I pretty much have a LAMP setup going... however is there a way I can configure apache to instead of getting its files from /var/www/html to say /home/intranet? this would make my life a whole lot easier because I can't seem to get vsftp to allow me to ftp into /var/www/html/(anything) .

if i can get this to work i want to write a tutorial from scratch on how to set up a forum server and stuff.

I believe the configuration for that is in the apache2.conf file. It's been a while since I messed with apache. Look for "root directory".

As for letting FTP into that directory, the trick is to mount that directory on a loopback interface so that it is within your jailed zone (you're probably using chroot jails with VSFTP). In fstab, it should look something like