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

[chris]

Hi Billie,
To serve up webpages from the user directory (/home/billie0w/public/cslsa), you'll need to install the userdir Apache module.  Once that's set up, you won't need to worry about VirtualHost configurations unless you need to serve multiple websites from the /var/www directory as well.  The userdir steps I sent earlier should still work for your machine?

In case you really want to set up VirtualHosts, here are some comments and example of a very basic VirtualHost configuration in case it's useful:

you may want to check that /etc/apache2/ports.conf  has a matching entry for the *80 in the VirtualHost.  Specifying port 80 isn't usually necessary, but it does need to be consistent between ports.conf and the VirtualHosts.

== ports.conf located in /etc/apache2/ports.conf ==
Listen 80
NameVirtualHost *:80

==Virtual Host located in /etc/apache2/sites-available ==
<VirtualHost *:80>

#while I believe you could make the DocumentRoot work with your designation (/home/billie0w/public/cslsa) I think it might behave inconsistently with scripting languages without implementing userdir.   Usually, the Ubuntu web directory is /var/www

DocumentRoot "/var/www/webDirectory"

#ideally, this should be the url of the website (sudo cat /etc/hosts ) 
ServerName www.websiteurl.com

#logging looks good

# email only matters if you care about what email address is displayed on server error messages in the browser

</VirtualHost>

You would access the above in your browser at  localhost/webDirectory 


hth
chris

On Feb 6, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:

> Looking over your suggestions and reading
> 
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts
> 
> I've come up with this to enable the second site:
> 
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>    ServerAdmin webmaster at localhost
> 
>    ServerName cslsa
>    <Directory />
>        Options FollowSymLinks
>        AllowOverride None
>    </Directory>
>    <Directory /home/billie0w/public/cslsa/>
>        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>        AllowOverride None
>        Order allow,deny
>        allow from all
>    </Directory>
> 
>    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
>    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
>        AllowOverride None
>        Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
>        Order allow,deny
>        Allow from all
>    </Directory>
> 
>    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
> 
>    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
>    # alert, emerg.
>    LogLevel warn
> 
>    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
> 
>    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
>    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
>        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
>        AllowOverride None
>        Order deny,allow
>        Deny from all
>        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
>    </Directory>
> 
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> I'm wanting this site open as 192.168.1125/~cslsa/ from a local computer.
> 
> Right now the server isn't connected to act as a web server right now. Trying to learn more before I make that final step.
> 
> -- 
> 
> “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
> -Albert Einstein
> 
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