[Techtalk] Accessing a web page on my server

[Kathryn Hogg]

On 2013-02-02 16:41, Billie Walsh wrote:
> After a lot of hair pulling and some bumps and lumps [ killed the
> installation and had to reload everything from scratch ] I have
> managed to get just about everything installed and mostly configured.
> Apache2 works as advertised. I get the "It Works" message. I set up a
> user and password in Proftpd and have it activated. I uploaded a
> website using gftp. So far so good.
>
> When I access my websites on other services it goes something like
> this "http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bilwalsh/".
>
> I tried 198.162.1.125/~bilwalsh/ and also without the "~". Says no
> site found. I can navigate to /var/bilwalsh/ and find the files just
> fine. Doing a lot of googling I see stuff about creating users in
> Apache but if/when I get this thing on the web I don't really want to
> require membership to access a web site. Checking the permissions for
> /var/bilwalsh I find the owner is root.
>
> Any suggestions for what I've missed.

Does your apache server have user directories enabled?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/public_html.html

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Kathryn Hogg
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