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Comment on How to Install Apache on Ubuntu by joycetipping

joycetipping — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:25:44 +0000

Hi don,

Sorry, but without more information, I’m not quite sure what you’re running up against. You may have to play with sudo-ing or chmod-ing a few things. Also, it’s been almost a year since I left Ubuntu (am now running Arch), so they may have changed things up. Good luck!

Comment on How to Install Apache on Ubuntu by don is very green

don is very green — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:55:21 +0000

PS. localhost is working fine but localhost/my-web-content produces a 404.

Comment on How to Install Apache on Ubuntu by don is very green

don is very green — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:49:19 +0000

Hi, I get as far as typing in the symbolic link and get
“ln: creating symbolic link `./my-web-content’: Permission denied”. I have set all the permissions detailed above.
Help please

Comment on How to Install Apache on Ubuntu by joycetipping

joycetipping — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:22:31 +0000

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it.

My public_html setup was really simple:

$ cd ~
$ mkdir public_html
$ cd /var/www/
$ sudo ln -s ~/public_html ./

At this point, I can access any files in ~/public_html at the browser address http://localhost/public_html/my-file.html. Here are the relevant permissions:

$ ls -ld /var/www/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root ... ... /var/www/
$ ls -ld ~/public_html/
drwxr-xr-x 2 joycetipping joycetipping ... ... /home/joycetipping/public_html/
$ ls -ld ~/public_html/my-file.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 joycetipping joycetipping ... ... /home/joycetipping/public_html/my-file.html

Unfortunately, I have no idea what could be causing your 403 error; I’ve not run into it myself. It sounds like you know a good deal more than me: My attempt to set up Virtual Hosts (a long time ago) ended with me learning to purge Apache (thus that section in my post, lol). Good luck with that!

Comment on How to Install Apache on Ubuntu by Myer Nore

Myer Nore — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:33:36 +0000

… wait, that’s
$ gnome-open http://localhost/
not
$ gnome-open /var/www/index.html…

Comment on How to Install Apache on Ubuntu by Myer Nore

Myer Nore — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:27:30 +0000

Great post – clear and thorough! I love your blog. This is actually the first time I’ve seen that httpd.conf has been deprecated; I suspected it since it was blank when I installed it, but you’re right, most of the posts around the net about configuring apache involve httpd.conf.

Like many, I’m having trouble with permissions. Will you post an example of the symlinks you use to create a new site somewhere in ~ and make it live on localhost?

Here’s a summary of my problem:

$ gnome-open /var/www/index.html // 403 "You don't have permission to access / on this server." $ ls -l /var/www/index.html // -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 177 2010-09-11 01:36 /var/www/index.html

And if I try to set it up with symlinks …
$ cd ~ $ mkdir public_html $ cd /var/www/ $ cp index.html ~/public_html $ ln -s ~/public_html ./ $ export UN=`whoami` $ sudo adduser $UN www-data $ sudo adduser www-data $UN $ cd ~ $ chown -R $UN:$UN public_html $ chmod -R a+r public_html $ gnome-open http://localhost/ // 403 "You don't have permission to access / on this server." $ ls -l public_html/index.html // -rwxr-xr-x 1 $UN:$UN ... ... index.html

I’m kind of afraid that I’ve hosed my LAMP trying to set up Named Virtual Hosts, but I’d rather try to debug the situation if I can …