Hello everyone

ok this is the story...
im running a fedora core3, up to date, so when i run up2date or apt-get there's no update for it... (kernel version: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux)
I tried to run my http server using the gui program under Applications/system settings/servers, it worked nicely; but then i tried to give it some virtual hosts so every user on my server can have http server (http://myip/~mike or http://myip/~karan ) it didn't work always giving me the forbiden error so i check the file read permissins and everything , i even gave all home/public_html folders the 777 permission; still didn't work anyways i went and downloaded the apache server 2.0.52 / installed it under /usr/local/apache2.
i used the httpd config file and set it up, gave it some home directories...(karan, mike, ...)
and ran it. (/usr/local/apache2/apachectl start)
so everything works fine; i just have to ente http://myip/~user so the homepage will come up
now my question is:
1) How can i get rid of the 1st server?
2) How can i add the 2nd server to my services so it'll start automatically when i start the computer?
3) how can i direct the gui part in fedora so i can use the gui program to edit the files not doing everything maually by going through then .conf files and stuffs...?

best regards
karan

To answer your questions:

1. to get rid of the first server, locate the directory of httpd (or apache) and remove that top directory. For example, lets say you have:

/usr/local/apache (apache 1.3.x)
/usr/local/apache2 (apache 2.0)

Therefore, do a 'rm -rf /usr/local/apache'. Afterwards remove the startup script in /etc/init.d

2. To make your apache2 startup, write an init script in /etc/init.d and do a symbolic link from your current run level to that script.

3. I don't do anything GUI on linux, I do it all manually. So, I can't help ya there. Sorry...

-twantrd