Apache Web Server

I am very new to the Apache web server, from my understanding I can just
put files in a directory on my computer and they will run on the server?
My server is running and I can see the test page, but I don't know what
folder to put my files in. And is there any special configuration if I
just want to host some web pages?

John Mattia

On 19 Apr 2005, "John Mattia" <jrobertm@rochester.rr.com> wrote in
news:op.spiei2gsd09vg2@hp.belkin:

> I am very new to the Apache web server, from my understanding I
> can just put files in a directory on my computer and they will
> run on the server? My server is running and I can see the test
> page, but I don't know what folder to put my files in. And is
> there any special configuration if I just want to host some web
> pages?

Please spend a little time with the documentation. Assuming you use
Apache version 2, go to:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/

In particular, read about the documentroot directive:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod...l#documentroot

and the alias directive:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod...ias.html#alias

Also, the httpd.conf file is heavily commented to help you understand
what it's doing.

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:28:50 GMT, "John Mattia"
<jrobertm@rochester.rr.com> wrote:

>I am very new to the Apache web server, from my understanding I can just
>put files in a directory on my computer and they will run on the server?
>My server is running and I can see the test page, but I don't know what
>folder to put my files in. And is there any special configuration if I
>just want to host some web pages?

Put your html pages in the htdocs folder.

The tutorial is Greek to me, is there just a folder I can put things in
and access them from the web?




On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:05:48 -0400, Nil <rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net>
wrote:

> On 19 Apr 2005, "John Mattia" <jrobertm@rochester.rr.com> wrote in
> news:op.spiei2gsd09vg2@hp.belkin:
>
>> I am very new to the Apache web server, from my understanding I
>> can just put files in a directory on my computer and they will
>> run on the server? My server is running and I can see the test
>> page, but I don't know what folder to put my files in. And is
>> there any special configuration if I just want to host some web
>> pages?
>
> Please spend a little time with the documentation. Assuming you use
> Apache version 2, go to:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/
>
> In particular, read about the documentroot directive:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod...l#documentroot
>
> and the alias directive:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod...ias.html#alias
>
> Also, the httpd.conf file is heavily commented to help you understand
> what it's doing.
>



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John Mattia wrote:
> I am very new to the Apache web server, from my understanding I can
just
> put files in a directory on my computer and they will run on the
server?
> My server is running and I can see the test page, but I don't know
what
> folder to put my files in. And is there any special configuration if
I
> just want to host some web pages?
>
> John Mattia

On 20 Apr 2005, "John Mattia" <jrobertm@rochester.rr.com> wrote in
news:op.spjeltk4d09vg2@hp.belkin:

> The tutorial is Greek to me, is there just a folder I can put
> things in and access them from the web?

htdocs