[wellylug] Setting up a simple web server

John Durham johndurh at spunge.org
Tue Aug 9 11:20:39 NZST 2005


Creating files is not that hard. Once a text exitor is open, writing
html is easy. Getting it to save where wanted can be a problem.
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:58 +1200, David Antliff wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 




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