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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