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Scott Leighton wrote:
On Saturday 22 January 2005 3:10 pm, Robert A. Rawlinson wrote:
Thanks! I will try that. I didn't because it already had a lot of index files in it.
If your ~/public_html directory already has a bunch of index files in it, then you might want to find out what they are....
Now, if you are talking about /srv/www/htdocs, the stuff that is there is the default apache index file in numerous languages. It's perfectly ok to blow them away and replace them with your content.
How does the other (http://localhost/~<username>/ find it?
As shipped with SuSE, apache is configured for user dirs so any user on your system can 'publish' stuff to their public_html folder and that stuff can be viewed with the url I showed you.
Do you mean to have the index.html in the my home directory?
No, in the public_html directory that is in your home directory.
I know the folks that make the docs do a lot of hard work for us, but sometimes its hard for them to get a newcomers view because they have so much knowledge of the project.
The apache docs are excellent and quite easy to follow. The default setup that SuSE installs works right out of the box, but you do have to do your homework and read the apache docs.
Scott
I hope you won't mind just one more question. The program I have to run is a perl script that generates html and runs it. I am working on code started by someone else. I tried your ~bob and it works but I was not able to start the perl script. Could you give me a quick way to do that? Bob Rawlinson