Re: personal web page

[Greg Thomas <getbsd_(_at_)_sbcglobal_(_dot_)_net>]

On Tuesday, Nov 12, 2002, at 00:57 US/Pacific, Tibor Strausz wrote:

> but than a user has to add his stuff to /var/www/users/
> isn't it nicer the let him add stuff to
> /home/me/public_html ???

This was just discussed to death here.

ln -s /var/www/users/me /home/me/public_html

See http://www.stanford.edu/~tedu/apache.html for additional info.

Greg

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Soren Jacobsen [mailto:devsoren_(_at_)_attbi_(_dot_)_com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:05 AM
> > To: misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
> > Subject: Re: personal web page
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:54:11AM +0100, Tibor Strausz wrote:
> > > Ok i set up apache and it works fine :-)
> > > now i tried making my personal web page /home/me/public_html
> > > i did this:
> > > UserDir public_html
> > [snip]
> > > but when i do lynx localhost/~me/ i get an error 404 not found
> > > but i have a /home/me/public_html/index.html file
> >
> > Since apache is chrooted, it cannot see /home/me/public_html. If you
> > look in httpd.conf, you'll see that the suggested solution is to give
> > users a directory in /var/www/users/.
> >
> > Or you could disable chrooting.
> >
> > --
> > Soren Jacobsen