Re: [LUG] Installing a web server

[Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 26 August 2005 9:42 pm, Thomas Arrow wrote:
> After hearing how easy debian was supposed 
> to be this was very disheartening.

It is Apache2 that is perhaps confusing you with the new config. You should 
create a virtual host in sites-available and symlink that file in 
sites-enabled.

$ ls /etc/apache2/sites-available/

Example:
neil@garfield:~$ cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/garfield
NameVirtualHost garfield.codehelp

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1>
        ServerAdmin     neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ServerName      garfield
        DocumentRoot    /home/codehelp
        ErrorLog        /var/log/apache/codehelp/error.log
        <Directory /home/codehelp>
                Options +Includes
                AllowOverride FileInfo
        </Directory>
        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/codehelp/cgi-bin/
        <Directory /home/codehelp/cgi-bin>
                Options +ExecCGI
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>


# ls -l /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
000-default -> ../sites-available/garfield

Putting your files in /var/www/ or similar was always a dirty hack approach. 
The "right" way to do it, even with Apache1, was with virtual hosts.

P.S. The thing that is easy with Debian is installing packages and their 
dependencies. Configuration is quite another matter. Apache2 is installed if 
it runs at all. If it doesn't show the files you expect then it's the 
configuration that needs to be tweaked and if that involves user files (as a 
website does), you can't really blame the installer. Some packages will 
install such files and ask the user where to put them or where to find them 
but Apache is one of those packages that will tend to require some knowledge 
of the configuration before it can be useful.

-- 

Neil Williams
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