[H-GEN] Apache Question

[Andrew Pullin]

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Hi There,

> Ok, let's go through this.
>
> > # Generated automatically... if you edit manually, the changes will be
> lost
> > # the next time you run "apacheconfig".
>
> uh-oh.  This may explain some of the brain damage later on.
>

As far as I can tell it only affects the bits that are automagically set
with the GUI Apache setup. I can find no other way of changing the
httpd.conf file otherwise.

> > <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
> >     UserDir /home/admin/*/public_html
> > </IfModule>
> >
> Ok, I'm pretty sure this is meant to be just public_html, not
> /home/admin/*/public_html.
>
That is what I tried first and it didn't work. I also tried
/home/*/*/public_html because I also have a /home/users/ directory. The
Apache help files suggested this way to set it up.


> > DirectoryIndex
> >
> This should probably be:
>
> DirectoryIndex index.html
>
That was a default setting and from the top of my head is unnecessary unless
you want that to be the default document served in a directory. In this case
I DON'T want it served, I want to be able to list the contents of the
directory.

> at least.
> > <VirtualHost *>
> >   ServerSignature email
> >  DirectoryIndex  index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml
> >   LogLevel  warn
> >   HostNameLookups off
> > </VirtualHost>
> >
> Er, this doesn't look right.  I'd probably completely remove this if
> you're not actually using it, and move the configuration directives
> specified in this virtual host back up into the main configuration file
> (or just remove the VirtualHost lines, but you may be in for a world of
> hurt down the track when you change the config directive at the top of
> the file and it doesn't work properly)
>
Actually that is a default setting also. I haven't changed it at all. I
don't have a Virtual Host, so it shouldn't make a difference.


> > <Directory /home/admin/*/public_html>
> >   AllowOverride None
> >   Allow from from All
> > </Directory>
> > <Directory /home/admin/*/public_html/cgi-bin/>
> >   Options ExecCGI
> >   SetHandler cgi-script
> > </Directory>
> >
> Your home directories are /home/admin/<username>, right?  If not (no
> version of Red Hat that I know of does it this way by default), then
> change the above 2 paths to be the path of a user's home directory.
> E.g. Red Hat usually puts home directories under /home, so you would
> want /home/*/public_html and /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin
>
Those were straight out of the Apache pages. My error logs pointed at the
wrong directory until I did it that way. My deault user directories are
/home/admin/ and /home/users/.


> And I'm sure you have double from's in your Allow From config
> statements.  I'm also pretty sure that for every Allow statement, you
> need a Order statement.
>
> Hope that helps.  The Apache manual really is very good.

Again, I have changed very little of the default httpd.conf file. All other
references to Directory etc were done that way so I just did it that way in
case it was done for a reason. I have only actually changed three things in
the httpd.conf file: the server name; UserDir and the last two Directory
constructs. All the rest is default.

Anyhow, still no luck, but we will keep trying.
    Cheers!
        Andrew


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