directing apache server to a folder

klmbrt · 01-23-2006, 07:02 AM

I am new to using linux as a web server. I am using Fedora 2. I want to use it as an internal web server for working on projects. I have apache set up and I have all of my PHP programs in a specific folder on root. I want to know how to configure apache to look in that folder when I access localhost. I am also having trouble configuring MySQL to access my database files, like I said I'm really just getting started doing these things at home like this.

nikm · 01-23-2006, 07:53 AM

Look into the configuration file for <Directory> tag.
You might see lots of them. Just copy one of them and make changes to point to your directory. Also add an Alias for the directory using the Alias command.

Alias /mysite/ "/path/to/your/direcotory/"
<Directory "/path/to/your/direcotory/">
.....
</Directory>

Now you can access this directory by
http://localhost/mysite

klmbrt · 01-23-2006, 07:18 PM

Which configuration file?

/root/etc/httpd/config/

or maybe
/var/www/html/

or another

pk21 · 01-24-2006, 04:01 AM

Just search in your httpd.conf for DocumentRoot and change it. Make sure apache has at least reading permission in the directory.

klmbrt · 01-24-2006, 05:50 AM

That worked great! Do you have any advice on configuring mysql? Whenever I try to use TOra, I get unable to access, or access denied. I don't know where I'm suppose to set the password and user permissions at. Is there a better MySQL Manager than TOra?

pk21 · 01-24-2006, 07:22 AM

I don't know the program TOra. If you get an unable to access then check if mysql is running(/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld status).

To set the password from commandline you can use something like:

mysql -u root mysql
mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR username@hostname=PASSWORD('your_password');

klmbrt · 01-25-2006, 07:34 AM

When I browse through the filesystem for (/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld status); I find the folder etc/rc.d/init.d and then there is some object in there called mysqld, which I can not open or I do not know how to open.

And when I go to the commandline and do this: mysql -u root mysql ; I get can not connect to /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock ; and I can not even find the file mysql.sock in that file system directory. Am I missing something?

klmbrt · 01-25-2006, 07:55 PM

I've got this so far but now my php scripts don't know how to locate the mysql database directory...

Any IDEAS???