[Techtalk] Accessing a web page on my server

[Maria Pinjanainen]

la, 2013-02-02 kello 16:41 -0600, Billie Walsh kirjoitti:
> 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.
> 

Is the folder reable for user www-data?  If you have managed to setup
correctly that "/home/*/public_html" in apache's setup, please check
that server can access that folder. 
su to user www-data and check that you can read the folder bilwalsh.