[Techtalk] Stumped - accessing site on local server

[Billie Walsh]

Thank you Sheila. Light begins to show.

On 02/10/2013 07:42 PM, Sheila Fenelon wrote:
> Billie Walsh wrote:
>>>> I have tried the "cslsa" site [ 192.168.1.125/~cslsa/ ] in
>>>> /home/billie0w/public and /var/www/public/. No luck.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> userdir.conf defines
>>> 192.168.1.125/~cslsa/ as pointing to /home/cslsa/public_html
>>> Is cslsa a user? Does that directory exist?
>>>
>> The public_html goes after the cslsa?
>>
> Your userdir.conf has this
> <Directory /home/*/public_html>
> so, yes the pattern is /home/{login_id}/public_html
>
> If you had a directory
>   /home/billie0w/public_html/
> then it would be web viewable from
> http://192.168.1.125/~billie0w/
>
>> The only thing I can find about adding a user to apache2 is to add a
>> password to /usr/local//apache2//bin/htpasswd. I don't want it
>> passworded.
> That's for password protecting access to web pages. You don't want that.
>
>> Other than that I don't know what you mean by "Is cslsa a
>> user?"
>>
>> There's a cslsa directory in /home/billie0w/public/ and in
>> /var/www/public/ right now while I'm trying to figure this out.
>>
> UserDir is for system users, like billie0w.
>
> if you want this to work, http://192.168.1.125/~cslsa/
> then you need a directory /home/cslsa/public_html/ for the web files.
>
>
> Sheila
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