Apache: Where to put the webpages?

Thoht · 2009-06-11 16:47:44

Hey!

1) I just got Apache and VSFTPD up and running. I got a domain name connected by a dynamic DNS service to my IP, so I can log in via SSH and FTP to my account. However, visiting www.mydomain.com in a web browser defaults to the /srv/http folder - and the files uploaded by users are found in ~/public_html which are found at www.mydomain.com/~username. Is that a security risk, having the username being displayed openly?

2) I've tried changing the permissions of the /srv/http folder, but I still can't edit it unless I'm logged in as root. At the installation of Apache a user http was created, but the folder itself belongs to user 0 and group 0 according to my FTP client. In SSH it looks like this:

> ls -l
total 8
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root ftp  4096 2009-06-11 15:54 ftp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-11 11:22 http

Is that folder supposed to be editable by users? How can I arrange it to be editable in an easy way?

Regards,
T

Thoht · 2009-06-11 16:49:41

I found this tutorial on chmod that I'm trying to understand, but I can' seem to find out about this particular problem.

tychersantiago · 2009-06-11 16:55:24

/srv/http but you can create aliases and symlinks for another folders outside it.

Ronin15 · 2009-06-14 08:03:34

You just have to copy all of your web content using an ftp client or by using the cp command to the /srv/http directiory and it will work. If you need to make configuration changes use the httpd.conf file in the /etc/httpd/conf/. In the http.conf file it will let you change the default document root "/srv/http" to what ever directory you would like to use. Hope this helps.

Last edited by Ronin15 (2009-06-14 08:07:17)

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#1 2009-06-11 16:47:44

Apache: Where to put the webpages?

#2 2009-06-11 16:49:41

Re: Apache: Where to put the webpages?

#3 2009-06-11 16:55:24

Re: Apache: Where to put the webpages?

#4 2009-06-14 08:03:34

Re: Apache: Where to put the webpages?

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