[Techtalk] Accessing a web page on my server - update 3

[chris]

Hi Billie,
it sounded like you might have set up your web files in /var/billiewalsh? or is that an outdated configuration? :)

If you set up userdir, then the web server will be looking for the web files in /home/username -- that's why, when you type the url into the browser (http://123.45.6789/~/billiewalsh/),  you can use ~,  it's shorthand for /home/  (but of course, this being linux, you can set up "home" to be elsewhere)

Once you have userdir working, you can create another user e.g.

useradd -m -c "chris" -s /bin/bash chris
$passwd chris

The flags create a home directory with skel profile defaults and this account is linked to the defaults for bash shell

You or they will have to create the public_html directory (if you create it, don't forget to chown it to the user)

hth
chris
 


On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:

> Sorry I haven't been in contact much the past couple days. I had some more pressing issues that I had to work on. Life is what happens while your busy making other plans.
> 
> Reread everything you all have sent and some more web pages besides and now my site is the default site on the server. Making major progress. It's hard for this old brain to wrap itself around new information. I suppose the easy way would have been to just replace the default "It Works" page with my site but that seemed like cheating.
> 
> What I need to do next is add a second "user" and website for that user.
> 
> If I create another file for the new user in the "Sites Available" directory and enable it without disabling to "bilwalsh" file will that do the trick?
> 
> -- 
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> “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
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