[Techtalk] Accessing a web page on my server

[Billie Walsh]

On 02/02/2013 05:27 PM, Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> 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
>

That may be the missing piece. I'll have to spend some time this evening 
reading and digesting. Thank you.

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