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Subject: Re: Web Server
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:31:08 -0800


Rick Knebel wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have a small web site on my home machine.
> I would like to have it accessible, so I can edit it as a user and not root.
> Right now it can be accessed by http://rknebel.uplink.net.
> I would like to have it something like this http://rknebel.uplink.net/~rknebel.
> So i can edit it as user rknebel and not root.
> i think I need to put a public_html directory somewhere but i am not sure.
> 
> If there is a howto somewhere that would be great.

On the computer in question, you should have a user named
rknebel.  You should have this:

/home/rknebel/public_html/index.html

the file "index.html" is the default web page name, and should
be accessible as http://rknebel.uplink.net/~rknebel

There is the issue of permissions:  in /home/rknebel:

drwxrwxr-x      rknebel   rknebel   1024  public_html

and in /home/rknebel/~rknebel:

-rw-rw-r--      rknebel   rknebel   475   index.html

Now go to the web site in question.  If you get a message
that access is forbidden or that you do not have permission
to go there, then you need to make one more change (be root for this):
in /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf
-------------------------------------------------
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.

order allow,deny
allow from all
-------------------------------------------------

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