[wellylug] Setting up a simple web server

[David Antliff]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> David Antliff wrote:
>>> There were no complaints from the system, yet when I try to add the
>>> files in the html folder, it complains I don't have permission to do
>>> that.
>>
>> I suspect it's not rejecting the instruction to change the permissions -
>> it's more likely some sort of misunderstanding about how the permissions
>> apply.
>
> Check the error.log to see what actually happened - was it the case thet
> the web server couldn't read the files (i.e. permissions that can be
> fixed with chmod) or was it because the web server refuses to serve that
> directory to the network (i.e. <Directory> or <Location> statements in
> the httpd.conf)?
>
> Sounds to me like it's the latter case - but you should check the
> error.log to be sure.

I thought the problem was at a much lower level - that he is unable to 
create new files in a standard UNIX filesystem with a basic text editor? 
The way I read it, the web server has nothing to do with it at this stage.

-- 
David.