Apache and webhosting simple NEWBIE QUESTION

zetsui · 07-31-2003, 03:02 PM

i wanted to know apache is used or hiosting webpages you built, how do you set the website adress, i am new to all this but i want to know what is hosting and how apache has to do with anything.........

rajbaxi · 07-31-2003, 03:14 PM

The best thing is use setup VirtualHosts. See the Apache documentation.

Looking_Lost · 07-31-2003, 03:24 PM

Pardon me if I'm wrong, you know apache is involved in websites somehow but don't what it really does?

Put it this way to view a Microsoft Word Document you have to open Microsoft Word to see it. Same principle on websites, each individual page is a documetn and apache opens it up so you can read it amongst a complex of other thigs.

My apologies if I patronised, where was that stone I was gonna crawl under

rajbaxi · 07-31-2003, 03:38 PM

oops... misread the question. apache is a webserver like Microsoft's IIS. It tells the server computer what document to load when the client computer accesses the URL.

zetsui · 07-31-2003, 06:26 PM

im sorry i really couldn't find the words for posting the question lol anyways i wanted to ask what basically goes into creating and putting a webpage on the internet?

scius · 07-31-2003, 07:37 PM

i was wondering the exact same thing a day ago. Here are the (extremely general) steps... (there are excellent tutorials on how to do this all over the web)

If you dont have apache... Download/Install it.
If/once you do:
type "#httpd start" (you might need to do this from root)
check "http://yourIP/" to see if it's up. You should see an apache defualt page. Next you need to put files into your webspace.
You can check /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf (I think) to see where the file is that holds your site, but the default is "/vars/www/html/" so your is probably there. Now just throw something in there, name it "index.html" and you're set to go. You can also do this using symbolic links to your /home/usr or any other directory, so you wont always need root access to change things. I found that very useful. (to make a symbolic link type "ln -s /name/of/directory/or/file.jpg /vars/www/html/ANYTHING" now replace the first path with the path to the file or whatever you want to be on the website, and replace anything with what you want it to be called on your website.)

that should get you up and going. Any questions please post. I dont know much, but i'll help what i can.

zetsui · 07-31-2003, 08:41 PM

thx man but that's not what im asking i am asking if apachi holds webpages how do you determien the adress for the webpage

gabriele_101 · 08-01-2003, 01:08 AM

In its simplest form:

http://some.machine.somewhere.com/somedir/somepage.html

http:// = use the web
some.machine.somewhere.com = either the name of the machine you are running apache on or the ip address (e.g., 127.0.01).
somedir = the name of a directory as explained below.
somepage.html = the name of the HTML file to be "served" to the user.

somedir is defined relative the DocumentRoot (and DocumentRoot is usually defined in your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file) so that if you have the line

Code:

DocumentRoot "/path/to/docroot"

Then the file somepage.html is actually located at

Code:

/path/to/docroot/somedir/somepage.html

It gets more complicated if you are using virtual hosts, multiple domains. multiple IP addresses, and aliased directories, but I'm guessing that you're not doing that right now

-G

zetsui · 08-01-2003, 04:34 PM

thx gabriel are you a teen girl :-* read my sig ^.^

jon_k · 08-01-2003, 04:48 PM

What you need is your hand and your self and a good file sharing program that supports mpegs.

Haha.