Configuring apache

I have a domain name, but I need hosting. I want to do it myself. I
downloaded apache, but I am wondering how to upload my web site files
using the apache software. Thanks!

you want to host your own website

apache is a webserver

place your files inside apache's htdocs or whatever the site directory
is set to.
update your domain's A record to point to your IP address, update
apache to listen to for connections to your domain name.

no uploads needed, unless your server is installed on a dedicated
machine, then youl just need to use FTP on the LAN.

"webwolf_3000" <webwolf_3000@msn.com> wrote in message
news:1144158917.413372.277390@t31g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
> you want to host your own website
>
> apache is a webserver
>
> place your files inside apache's htdocs or whatever the site directory
> is set to.
> update your domain's A record to point to your IP address, update
> apache to listen to for connections to your domain name.
>
> no uploads needed, unless your server is installed on a dedicated
> machine, then youl just need to use FTP on the LAN.
>

ok I have done what you mention here. How do i get the index.html file to
show and what are the index.htm.whateve files mean?
and do i change those? I'm real new to this. I can use abyss server a little
better, but not that much and I'm fixing to start learning this one. I just
want to be a better understanding of it. and are there any PDF documents on
this one? thanks.

apache is the most popular web server around, there is a lot of
information on it, just google specific questions.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/ < manuals<

index.html should show automatically before anything else in the
directory.

lets say your domain is http://www.scooby.com

as long as the home page for that site is under the root of your web
server ie; htdocs
then when you goto http://www.scooby.com that index.html page should
load.

htm and html are one and the same, html is the preferred tradition, you
can change the default from index.html to

main.html
home.html
page.html

or whatever you want it to be.
just find the below line in the httpd.conf file

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.htm index.php
index.php3

and append onto that line whatever you would like to be used as the
default home page for each directory, you can replace any of the above
too.

pfancy said:

> "webwolf_3000" <webwolf_3000@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:1144158917.413372.277390@t31g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
>> you want to host your own website
>>
>> apache is a webserver
>>
>> place your files inside apache's htdocs or whatever the site directory
>> is set to.
>> update your domain's A record to point to your IP address, update
>> apache to listen to for connections to your domain name.
>>
>> no uploads needed, unless your server is installed on a dedicated
>> machine, then youl just need to use FTP on the LAN.
>>
>
> ok I have done what you mention here. How do i get the index.html file to
> show and what are the index.htm.whateve files mean?
> and do i change those? I'm real new to this. I can use abyss server a little
> better, but not that much and I'm fixing to start learning this one. I just
> want to be a better understanding of it. and are there any PDF documents on
> this one? thanks.

You don't mention what version of Apache that you're running.

A simple Googling of "apache manual" returned, as the first link:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/

That's everything you need to know about Apache.

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