Updating webserver under Mandrake 9.2

lonny · 12-01-2003, 12:42 PM

I recently installed Mandrake 9.2. I have the apache webserver running under the var/www/html directory. The problem is that my user "bob" can only use the /home/bob directory. I would like to make bob's home directory to /www/html and also give him permissions to use this directory. How could I do this and what would I want to set the permissions of the /www/html/ directory to?
ex. drwxrwxr-x?

wldkos · 12-01-2003, 03:16 PM

why not have "bob" make a directory in the /home/bob/ called "public_html" that is 777 (world everything)

That is how apache handles user accounts, instead of sharing the Docroot with everyone. You will have to navigate to say http://yourdomain.com/~bob, but in the apache config file you can set the alias to .com/bob, and all he has to do is put an index.html file in there, and he's got his own webspace.

PDR60 · 12-01-2003, 03:52 PM

Or you could fire up an FTP server and give that user no home directory but a directory called "bob" or whatever in the /var/www/html. That way you could give bob rights to only his "bob" folder in the html directory. Its also much easier to admin.

lonny · 12-01-2003, 04:15 PM

Thanks I figured it out. Also now that I can ftp to that directory, Apache looks for index.shtml for a home page. Is there a way to change this. I wanted to use index.php instead. I think that php is also installed in mandrake 9.2 if im not mistaken.

PDR60 · 12-01-2003, 04:31 PM

Php is a module that you will need to install. I do most of my config with Webmin so setting up the individual servers is a snap. You can get to webmin by typing https://localhost:10000 on the machine or by substituting the ip address if your not on the machine. Webmin makes the config easy. Just go to servers -> apache and there is your config. If you need some help just drop me a line.

wldkos · 12-01-2003, 07:38 PM

yeah man,

Quote:

# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.htm Default.htm default.htm index.xml
</IfModule>

add in there whatever you want. You could have jimbob.txt to be the "index" page if you wanted to, and any file named "jimbob.txt" would be the file that apache displays when entering a directory with that file there

lonny · 12-01-2003, 11:59 PM

Hey looks like mandrake 9.2 comes pre installed with php. I also checked the config file u mentioned and index.php was already in there! Bouyaa!