[Techtalk] Accessing a web page on my server
Billie Walsh
bilwalsh at swbell.net
Sun Feb 3 03:48:57 UTC 2013
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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