Hello everyone,

As you can see from the title, I'm having issues with aspects of working in a virtual web server installed for local development of web sites. I installed a Joomla Appliance from turnkey linux that is working great (as far as I know). I'm able to see it on the network by pinging from my hosting OS to the servers ip address. I have been able to upload a site to the web server into the /etc/www folder using sftp.

Here's where the problems begin. The only way I can access the site in my browser is by going into webmin, find the file and double click it. Then it opens in my browser. If I understood correctly, I should be able to put the host name(joomla or localhost)or ip address followed by the site folder and the index.htm file and it should show up inside the browser but that doesn't work.

Regarding accessing the server via ftp, I have been able to upload using sFTP without any problems. It even takes me to the www folder after I set up a user via webmin and gave it a setting of www as the root folder for the specific user. Now, after installing vsftp I still can't access the server via ftp (I don't know if I should even worry about that since sFTP is more secure).

Finally were down to MySQL GUI Tools. The log in request server host name, port (it puts in a default port number) and user and password. I have put in Joomla, localhost and the server ip address and cannot get in. I used mysql user and password and the user created for ftp access and neither worked.

I'm very new with regards to working in this environment and can't figure out how to get this with everything i have already read on the subject. I'm pretty sure I'm missing a step that needs to be taken and am hoping you guys can steer me in the right direction.

Thanks for any help you may provide.

jc

Keep using sftp.

I assume that you've checked; apache started without errors?

Have you set permissions for files in the webroot? What about ownership of those files?
You should update the ownership and permission of all files in the webroot match your local environment.

If your files are in /etc/www, then something like this works:

# cd /etc/www
# chmod -R 640 *
# chown -R apacheuser:apachegroup *

That's your first problem. Get to a point where apache is serving files, then worry about the next problem.