[LUG] apache web server adding pages as a normal user

[Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I know this has probably come up before,  however this may benefit Tom 
Arrow.

1.  I have set up apache and my doc root is /var/www/

Now, as I am normally logged in as myself I can't save files to this 
folder,  what is the proper way to allow me to add files,  should I add 
myself to the www (or similar group),  So I can then connect my laptop 
to my destop, point the laptop browser at the desktop ip address, and 
then it displays whats on that page,  so in theory I could plug my 
desktop in to a network and anyone on that network can access the server 
(ok I may need a static ip and to hack the apache config files so it's 
name is /intranet or something.

on a development point of view, I could develop stuff, locally. then 
move the final set of files, to /var/www/
(this can be done with a simple shell script, run as root under su )

According to the read me user directories are enabled, only I can't find 
public_html, within my user directory,  should I create this,

once I have doen this I take it it's just a case of pointing mozilla at 
my local public_html directory.

If I want to do as tom is doing, which is to build a intranet server,  
whats the best way of doing this, clearly I think there should be an 
easy way to get a directory to store html files along with related 
support files (cgi, perl, php, java etc)

thanks for any help

Paul

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