On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 5:36 pm, H. Carter Harris wrote: <snipped all the good stuff>
> I would like to tell you that I'm > smart and I figured those lines out all by myself but I didn't; I copied > them from one of the tutorials I have been reading (smile). Under the If you don't mind my asking, do you have a link for that tutorial? I recently registered a domain for the first time and darned if I can get things working. Can't access my apache server via my domain. Have been dicking around with it for more than a week now. Very frustrating. <snipped more good stuff> > Now if I was a gambling man (and I may now be since my state passed a > lottery yesterday), I would guess that the OS doesn't want to give Apache > access to the root folder. Have I done this correctly? And what should > I do to get Apache to server up this page? Sorry I can't help here. I learned a lot from your post! > The second problem I'm having is with editors. When I wanted to edit the > httpd.conf file I had to execute shell, su, copy the file to my home > directory, open Kate, edit the file and save it, go back to shell, and > copy the file back to the correct place. I have read the warnings about > not logging on as root and I am trying to abide by those warnings but I > get the feeling that I'm not doing something right. Any suggestions? I just su to root and use vim mostly or sometimes kedit when I have to edit a file as root. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today
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