Location of Apache's DocumentRoot

[Jason Shein]

On March 15, 2005 07:41 pm, Stephen wrote:
> Hi
>
> First post to this list. I look forward to coming out to the meetings
> and connecting with helpful people :)
>
> I have a long computer background, but Linux is still fairly new to me.
> I have some serious web development to do, and I will be using PHP and
> MySQL.
>
> I have invested in a Linux box, and installed Mandrake 10.0.
>
> I see quite a learning curve....
>
> Right now, I need to set up the server to look much like a virtual web
> host. I can't see any guides/rational for determining where to put the
> documentroot directory. It seems to me it should be under /var but I
> don't have much confidence that I will make good decisions yet.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> And how do I set the permissions on this directory? I will need to use
> ftp to upload the web files.
>
> Thanks in advance for help!
>
> Stephen

Try here for some tutorials for apache 1.3

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/tutorials.html

or here for 2.0

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/


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