[SOLVED] Lamp in slackware

portia · 05-05-2011, 05:47 PM

I followed this tutorial (http://vcn.bc.ca/~dugan/setting-up-slackware.html) to get apache running (using public_html from my home directory).
Apache works fine, but whatever I do it just ignores my home directory. It takes files from /var/www/htdocs/. Yes, I have restarted rc.httpd and still nothing.

paulsm4 · 05-05-2011, 06:15 PM

You need to configure Apache to allow browsing user home directories.

The httpd.conf setting is "UserDir":

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/public_html.html

Verify your configuration settings (httpd.conf, etc) are OK, verify that at least one user has a web directory (e.g. "~someuser/public_html/"), put a sample "index.html" in the directory, restart Apache ... and see what happens!

'Hope that helps .. PSM

portia · 05-06-2011, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulsm4

You need to configure Apache to allow browsing user home directories.

The httpd.conf setting is "UserDir":

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/public_html.html

Verify your configuration settings (httpd.conf, etc) are OK, verify that at least one user has a web directory (e.g. "~someuser/public_html/"), put a sample "index.html" in the directory, restart Apache ... and see what happens!

'Hope that helps .. PSM

Thanks. The link helped. I set everything up in a correct way, but what the tutorial I was following didn't mention was that to access it you specify http://localhost/~username.
I kept trying it with http://localhost

thanks

paulsm4 · 05-06-2011, 12:05 PM

Hi -

Glad you got it working:

Quote:

I set everything up in a correct way, but what the tutorial I was following didn't mention was that to access it you specify http://localhost/~username.

Ironic, considering the tutorial itself was posted in the author's UserDir

:
http://vcn.bc.ca/~dugan/