Okay all i want to do is have a very simple Apache2 (or 1 if this is easer but i already installed 2) server that will just be accessable from the internet at http://myip/myfile.html and let the viewers see the html file. I don't want it to always be up i only want it up when i want it up can I do this? I have installed Apache2 in YaST2 and all i can find regarding apache2 are config files...when i use YaST to set up an HTTP server it says it can mess with Apache2...maybe i have to be root or something...but i don't always want to be on root when i do this so how do i do this??? is there like a folder i just drag that html file into or s/t? I am very computer literate...but not on linux so well yet so go slow please.

usually indexes go into /var/www/html and all other web files .

you need of course to have httpd started.

alright thanks...just for anyone else trying to do this in SuSE the html files go in /srv/htdocs/

thanks

PS do you know an easy way to turn the server on and off?

run /etc/init.d (or rc.d)/httpd [command -- start, stop, restart] to start, stop, restart apache.


or is it apache instead of httpd for SuSE default Apache2 package? I forget. try both.



J

alright thanks...how would i make that into a file that is similar to a .bat file in windows so i can just make it an icon and click on it?