[Techtalk] Accessing a web page on my server

[Billie Walsh]

On 02/02/2013 09:31 PM, Kai MacTane wrote:
> On 2/2/2013 7:12 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>> On 02/02/2013 08:55 PM, Kathryn Hogg wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't use ubuntu but on Fedora 18, its disabled by default and they
>>> provide /etc/http/conf.d/userdir.conf where you can uncomment a line
>>> to enable and set the user dir.
>>
>> There's nothing like that in Ubuntu. There is an /etc/apache2/conf.d/
>> but there is nothing in there about "userdir" or user much of anything.
>
> There may not be such a file, but there should be a UserDir directive 
> somewhere in one of the *.conf or *.cf files in that directory.
>
> Try 'grep UserDir /etc/apache2/conf.d/*' and see what you get. My 
> guess is, there'll be at least one line returned, but it'll be 
> commented out. My advice would be to open the file that contains it, 
> look for that line, and look for comments right before it.
>

I opened each configuration file in /etc/apache2 and all the directories 
under that using a text editor without root privileges to read them. 
That way I can't mess up something by accident. The line is not in any 
of them.

I did a "gksudo grep UserDir /* " thinking that might search the entire 
drive. Didn't return anything.

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