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Subject: Re: [ILUG] Apache on RH8
Date: Friday 20 December 2002 11:53
From: Barry O'Donovan <barryodonovan at eircom.net>
To: "David Crozier" <davidcrozier at hotmail.com>
Try manually editing httpd.conf and change the line:
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
to
DocumentRoot "/home/sites/www"
Then save and RESTART THE HTTPD DAEMON
ie. > /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Barry
On Friday 20 December 2002 11:33, David Crozier wrote:
> Hi folks,
>> I am setting up a small Intranet server here using RH8.0 and Apache 2. I
> have set up the machine fine and downloaded all the latest updates
> automatically from RH, which was fairly nifty. Set the HTTPD to startup at
> boot using the services utility, also easy enough. Was able to access the
> default test page fine both on the machine and from another on our network.
> All with me so far?
>> Heres my problem.
>> I tried to change the default location from the website to /home/sites/www/
> where I have set up a simple index.html. Iam using the HTTP Server tool
> under Server Settings. The thing is this won't pick it up. I haven't
> manually changed the httpd.conf yet. I also can't even find the original
> index.html file under /var/www/html/ where its supposed to be.
>> What can I do to fix this.
>> I build another machine with RH7.3 and it worked fine under that!!
>> Dave
>> PS John, I managed to download a working RH8 distro after about 20 hours
> from ftp://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/redhat/8.0/en/iso/i386/
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Mobile: +353 (0)86 2891589, Office: +353 (0)1 716 2454
Roinn na Ríomheolaíochta, An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath.
Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin.
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