httpd serving wrong DocumentRoot

[Mark Weaver]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> Okay, thanks all for your suggestions. I think the problem here is that
> I'm used to windows where I can basically stick anything just about
> anywhere and it works fine. I understand why that is silly, but it's
> what i got used to... so lets start from scratch.
> 
> a.) where is the *most logical place* for me to put the files i want to
> serve and work on?
> b.) what will i need to change from the default configurations? ( apart
> from commenting out /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf )
> 
> I'd just really love to make this work soon - it's really holding up
> some projects... I nearly went back and got started in windows again!
> 
> Duncan
> 

Hi Duncan,

The apache "out-of-the-box" settings will work just fine. Place your 
files to be served in /var/www/html and away you go.

if you are going to place your web files inside a directory that is a 
sub-dir of /var/www/html like /var/www/html/duncan_projects, then you 
will need to create a Directory container so apache knows where they are 
and knows exactly how it should serve those files:

	<Directory "/var/www/html/duncan_projects">
	  AllowOverride All
	  Options ExecCGI # if you're going to use (.pl/.cgi - cgi-bin)
	</Directory>

thats about all there is to it for a default apache installation.
-- 
Mark
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