add pages to the webserver (apache)

[Stephen]

You could mount a partition on the hard drive as /var/www/ and server yourself webpages from there. You would make a directory on the /var/www/ for your web pages and then sudo chown user:user /var/www/your_directory to change the ownership to your user then you will have read-write access. You would access your web pages by http://127.0.0.1/your_directory/file.html.

Sorry Stephen, But I gotta be stupid....When I try to create a directory in /var/www/ it returns an error! On your code, what I suppose to put on "user:user"?
Maybe I didn get what you said to do...

thank you and sorry

Felipe Lopes

In a console window after you have booted from CD:

sudo mount /dev/hda1 /var/www/ - to mount first partition on first drive (c: in windows)

sudo mkdir /var/www/mywebpages - make a directory for your webpages (you could have already done this in windows first and already have your web pages there in which case this would be unnecessary)

sudo chown -R knoppix:knoppix /var/www/mywebpages/* - to change ownership of files in all the directories of your web pages (may not be needed use if it gives you a no permission to access files)

You may only need step one to mount the HD as your /var/www/ then when you type http://127.0.0.1/mywebpages/file.php in the browser your web pages will be served from your HD directory.

The user:user part in post above is your username I should have been a little clearer on that.

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Also if it will not let you add pages to your web page directory sudo chown knoppix:knoppix /var/www/mywebpages (to find the ownership of the directory ls -la /var/www/mywebpages)
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[felipe_lopes]

I've done everything you said...The first 2 steps worked fine, but the third step returnned the following error:

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# chown -R knoppix:knoppix /var/www/web/*
chown: changing ownership of `/var/www/web/index.php': Operation not permitted

When I try to access my "web" directory thru konquedor (running apache) it says that I don't have permission to see that page...I'm assuming that it is happen due to the above error...How to solve it?

Thank you Stephen so far!

Felipe Lopes
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[Stephen]

Put sudo in front of the chown line you must be super user to change permissions.

[felipe_lopes]

But I'm already logged in as root -> "#"

[Stephen]

Did you make the directory in knoppix or windows? If you made the directory with knoppix you can change the permissions because you just wrote to the drive, if you made it in windows are you by any chance using ntfs file system on the drive you are trying to change the permissions on if this is the case the drive would be mounted read-only you cannot write to ntfs.

Check the output of ls -la /var/www/web and ls -la /var/www/web/* also the output of the mount command to see what the file system type is and whether there is a (rw) at the end of the line with /var/www. If the directory /var/www/web is owned by root then change it to knoppix, also try to change just the single file index.php without the -R in the chown line.

[felipe_lopes]

Just wondering:

I've edit httpd.conf and then I saved it on my hd (knoppix running from cd)...
Then I started apache this way:

# apache -f /path/to/file/httpd.conf

Didn't worked though!!!
Does it only work w/ knoppix on hd?

[smarchand291]

Hi guys,
I confirm, using -f (apache -f) is best, transfer your config files(httpd.conf)
onto another partition. but ?

There's a problem here:
trying changing the ownship of files in ... let's say ... /mnt/sda4
(my website resides on sda4)

bring me to "operation not permitted" !
Even as "root" . I already posted a message about that.

wouldn't be best to hdinstall ?

thanks for any info

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