Hi,

This is for a home meda (intranet) server. My previous setup:

Using Ubuntu Server 12.04. LAMP stack in this case I use lighttpd for server with PHP, always works OK.

I always had all mp3 files under /var/www/music. Folders 755, files 644. Owner and group set to root but I've had it set to www-data and that worked OK too. I organize my mp3 in folders the way I like it and add Andromeda http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/home.asp it's a php file I put at the top of the my server's mp3 folder tree and it turns the web page into a streaming media site.

My question is:

I would like to put all my mp3 files in /home/myuser/music not in /var/www/music. That's the only difference I'd like to make, just have all media files under my home dir.

Could I keep everything the same, maybe even keep the andromedia.php file in /var/www/music but soft or hard link the media files from my home to /var/www/music?

So basically how do I store the mp3 file in home but serve/stream them? Hope I explained my question OK, thanks.

I cannot give you the exact steps, it has been a while since I've used lighttpd. However you should be able to change the root directory for your configured server to point to / home / usr / music rather than /var/www. Iirc this is set in /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf. Opening this as root with your favorite editor and you should be able to find lines referencing /var/www just change them to /home/user/music, save, and do service lighttpd restart.