My issue

I have just set up apache yesterday on a old home desktop, im hosting my website from home, got my site up and running and doing some editing to it, to make it look pretty.

What i am trying to do it, is put a link up on my website so that visitors can listen to an mp3 i want to put on there

I have my mp3 on my server but i cannot seem to get the correct path for src code.

so What i am asking is where do i put media files such as mp3 on my server so that when i edit the src code in the index.html, it links to the mp3 and plays it!

thank you for the help

Put the media files in the same directory as your index.html file, or lower in the directory structure, it is normally /var/www, but I look at your apache configuration file at the ServerRoot directive and it will tell you which directory to use.

Hi,

If you want the mp3 to be accessible through the web server, you must put it under the DocumentRoot. You can create a folder (e.g. media) under htdocs and put it there if you want to share more mp3 files.
Doing so, you can use: <a href=media/my.mp3>My mp3</a>

Regards

alright so this is what happens and what continues to happen, so i have a link named "about us"
and i am directing it to the aboutus.html in the directory /var/www/aboutus.html

so in the code this is what it looks like in the index.html file
<p><a href="/var/www/aboutus.html">About Us</a></p>

now as a result of clicking on the about us link on my website, it returns this:

The requested URL /var/www/aboutus.html was not found on this server.

Now i looked in the apache.conf file and it says my server root is:
/etc/apache2

I changed the "href" to that directory as well with the same result

as far as my documentroot ive been looking at examples all over the internet, trying to figure out where to put this, but its all been a little to advanced for me and i dont really understand, all i have come up with is editing the httpd.conf and so far all it says is

DocumentRoot /var/www
ServerRoot /etc/apache2

any help will do...it seems so simple but i am making it so complicated i just want to fix this hahaha

so thank you to whoever responds

You don't use the whole path to the file you want to link, but the path relative to DocumentRoot.
So just <p><a href="aboutus.html">About Us</a></p> should work.

alright that makes alot of sense hahaha im sorry im kind of new at this

it gives me a differet response tho, now it is saying i dont have permission to access that file, so im assuming i now need to edit something with user permissions

You're right. Run (as root)

i might actually love you.....
thanks alot, its so damn simple!!!!!!

one more quick question...what does the 644 mean? i dont get it, the higher the number the more access you get or what?

Glad to see it worked!
644 means that the file can be readable by anyone and writable only from the owner. In general apache wants a 755 permissions for the directories under DocumentRoot and 644 for the files it will serve.
If you want to read more on file permissions take a look here

Btw you can use "Thread tools" on top of the page to mark the thread Solved

Regards

I did just that, thank you very much...i might have to come back to you for some questions if thats alright.