web directory

philfighter · 05-15-2001, 06:14 AM

where is the web directory on most servers?

KevinJ · 05-15-2001, 01:31 PM

It can vary greatly, but you can easily determine where it is by looking at the httpd.conf file.
"DocumentRoot" specifies where this is located.

trickykid · 05-15-2001, 01:58 PM

You can customize as well and put as you feel necessary to your own configuration.

philfighter · 05-16-2001, 05:21 AM

thanks guys...yu have helped me crack a mystery...my book that comes with suse never mentions Document Root...THANKS!

philfighter · 05-16-2001, 03:09 PM

Ok...I redirected the Root Document to /home/hseritt/httpd. In that directory I created a sample html document. It is called apachetest.html. Next I went to the console and used the following command>>lynx http://prodigius.seritt.net/apachetest.html and it gave a 404 error. What did i do wrong?

KevinJ · 05-16-2001, 03:47 PM

Does http://localhost/apachetest.html work?

What are the permissions for apachetest.html? What are the permissions for the /home/hseritt/httpd directory?

hazza96 · 05-17-2001, 08:14 AM

You also need to check the permissions for home and hseritt

philfighter · 05-19-2001, 05:38 AM

my web directory (Root Document) has been redirected in httpd.conf to home/hseritt/httpd...i have made this into a directory that contains one test.html file. the file has been set to where I as a user have permissions and such but i still get a 404 error. whats wrong with it?

KevinJ · 05-20-2001, 02:10 AM

Web browsing is done as an anonymous user. Not as you.
You need to give World permissions to that dir and the files in it.

chmod 755 /home/hseritt/httpd
chmod 755 /home/hseritt/httpd/*

philfighter · 05-22-2001, 05:35 AM

Please for give me if yu think this is a stupid question but...why chmod 755? what is the 755 for? is that some type of code to denote anonymous user priviledge?

thanks!

philfighter · 05-22-2001, 05:40 AM

ok...tried it...the chmod 755 and i still get...

<b>Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /apachetest.html on this server.

Apache/1.3.12 Server at prodigius.seritt.net Port 80</b>

what next?

trickykid · 05-22-2001, 07:05 AM

The 755 stands for the read-write-execute for the particular access and rights to a directory or file.
When you see -rwxr--r-- taht indicates that root has full access to the file, and the user and groups only have read access.
Read=4, Write=2 and Execute=1, that is what the numbers represent when they are added up. If you want full access for a regular user, you would indicate a 7, cause if you add 4+2+1=7
Just do a man chmod for that manual pages on it for full detail.

hazza96 · 05-22-2001, 08:29 AM

Don't forget that not only the direectory that you are using as your web dir needs to be world writeable EVERY parent directory needs to be as well.

If the anonymous user can't change into the parent (/home/hseritt) then it doesn't matter what the permissions are further down.

I would advise against using your home dir as the web root, unless you don't care that every anonymous user is able to see what is in your home dir.

I would use /home/www (or /home/httpd) as the web root as all anon users have access to the /home anyway and you can just give them access to the httpd dir.

mkdir /home/httpd
chmod 755 /home/httpd