I am tryoing to use Apache to serve web pages in an intranet. I have never used apache before, having used Zope for everything - very successfully. However there is something zope cannot do - add several files at once! Apache allows this.
So
I made a symbolic link top get apache to run at bootup.
Logged in to the index.html file
"Welcome....." etc.

The files are supposed to be in /var/www
In this there are two directories "users" and "wordtrans"

What are they for?

I also found that when I edit the index.html file the edited stuff - say new links I added to the file etc, do not show up! Why?

Must i use them or can I make new folders and put in html files with a public_html in each as the initial file to log into for different users?

i will read the docs later but I want a quick start


Thanks

I just deleted everything in /var/www and then loaded up my website. My first page was index.htm and it loaded just fine...

You can change the first page to be loaded by editing the config file (IIRC, /etc/apache/httpd_config).

on my woody install it's /etc/apache/httpd.conf

yep, my bad. (That's why I put the IIRC in there).

Thanks everyone, I got everything going
I edited the index.html file and put in my own and added links to the other files.
It was quite easy and I am sorry to have troubled you, but I was in a hurry