Re: Changing Document Root Properly ? (Thanks)

[ko...@attbi.com]

It worked beautifully. Thanks. Must be a common 
question. The syntax for chown that you used was 
something I havent used before, so I got a bonus 
lesson.  Thanks again!

Matt
> chmod 711 /home/mattk
> chmod 755 /home/mattk/HTML
> chown -R mattk.mattk ~mattk
> 
> That should help you. :)
> If you need to find out what those modes do, man chmod.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Mike
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ko...@attbi.com>
> To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 10:07 PM
> Subject: Changing Document Root Properly ?
> 
> 
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Quick Question I hope.   I'm trying to set up Apache
> > 2.0, as a test environment on my own machine to test
> > out cgi scripts and the like.  I can get apache to
> > work, but it is in its default location.  I've been
> > trying to get it to use my html files from from my
> > own directory, so I'm not confusing my junk with
> > system stuff.  I get the message that "You don't
> > have permission to access / on this server." So I
> > suspect that it is a permissions issue, so I think I
> > just don't understand what is happening. In
> > /home/mattk/HTML/ the owner and group are set to
> > mattk.  In the default (/usr/local/apache/htdocs/) I
> > set the owner and group to mattk to see if it would
> > work and it does.  In fact I can set the
> > DocumentRoot to any directory following that path
> > and it finds it just fine . ie, if I set the
> > DocumentRoot to /usr/local/apache/htdocs/HTML and
> > place my files there it likes it.  But I want to set
> > it to /home/mattk/HTML/ What am I doing wrong?  I
> > listed out a few items from my httpd.conf that I
> > thought might help, without including the entire
> > piece.
> >
> > Thanks to all that have a moment to spare my sanity.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > httpd.conf file snippet follows:
> >
> >
> > ServerRoot "/usr/local/apache"
> >
> > #DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache/htdocs"
> > DocumentRoot "/home/mattk/HTML"
> >
> > <Directory />
> >     Options FollowSymLinks
> >     AllowOverride None
> > </Directory>
> >
> > #<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">DocumentRoot "
> > <Directory "/home/mattk/HTML">DocumentRoot "
> >     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> >     AllowOverride None
> >     Order allow,deny
> >     Allow from all
> > </Directory>
> >
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