advice setting up suse server

jsnto · 10-15-2006, 12:59 PM

And by smartly - I mean clearly!

I have SUSE running as a server and it is accessable but I want two things that i don't have yet:

I want remote access so i can ftp web pages I create. And I would like to access as a user and access user /home/ directories but have them appear as in the main domain (ie not "WWW domain ca/~user/webpages" **but** "WWW domain ca/pages"

I want to be able to view the web pages using "www domain ca/index.html" (this **is it root directory**directory) but I don't want to ftp in using root or have to access the /srv/www/htdocs/ directory

Can I link my user directory so i can make changes in my user directory but it appears in the /srv/www/htdocs/ subdirectory?

acid_kewpie · 10-15-2006, 01:22 PM

sounds like you just want to either change your documentroot in apache to point to an alternative location, or change the access rights of the current location to suit your non-root user.

jsnto · 10-15-2006, 02:30 PM

I guess I need to learn more. Maybe this is a better first step. I can put web pages in the /srv/www/htdocs subdir and they are viewable on the internet - how can I make my user (/jim/) pages available in the Internet? Do i have to add ~jim to the base URL? That doesn't work. Maybe i nneed to log in as root to change permissions?
Thanks for helping

acid_kewpie · 10-15-2006, 03:02 PM

home user dirs is something i've neerv really done, it's not massively easy from scratch but most httpd.conf files are commented to do it already, so is often just a case of removing the comment marks.

you can make pages appear from *anywhere* you want to. as above, the DocumentRoot variable in httpd.conf defines where the default pages are served from.

1337_penguin · 10-16-2006, 04:42 PM

Hi

In order to get UserDirs working, you'll probably just need to uncomment/add something like:

UserDir public_html
UserDir disabled root

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
</Directory>

in /etc/apache/httpd.conf or /etc/apache2/apache2.conf depending on the version you're running.

As for FTP, I use vsftpd - enabling local access is just a matter of uncommenting:

local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
(I also use chroot_local_user=YES)

in /etc/vsftpd.conf

Hope this helps.

1337_penguin