excellent! This is the answer I was looking for. While I am learning to
program PHP and MYSQL and even using Screem or other software to play around
with, I would rather not do it as root.
I guess I can find the how to configure in the Apache help files. I will
look as soon as I get home!
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From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 22:40
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] PHP
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Under normal circumstances, only people with special permissions (like
root) are allowed to work with the root web directory.
For normal users creating a personal website, and for people with their
own domain hosted at their ISP, the website is actually in their home
directory, often in a web or www subdirectory -- thus, $HOME/www or
$HOME/web.
The apache web server is then configured to allow user web directories,
and if a URL like 'www.ispdomain.net/~username/' is requested, apache is
smart enough to look in /home/username/www for an index.html file, or load
the specific file requested. PHP just goes along for the ride -- if apache
can read from a user's home directory or www subdirectory, then so can php.
It's the same for domains hosted at a hosting company. The apache server
is configured so that www.yourdomain.com is redirected to
$HOME/www (or whatever). When you ftp to "your" website to upload
files, you are actually being deposited into your home directory.
The ISP does all this configuration for you when you set up an account, so
that it is transparent to the user. If you are hosting your own website on
your own server, then you can either put your website in webroot, or (my
preference) put it in your $HOME/www directory, and configure apache to
look there for your particular domain. This approach allows you to add
other domains later, and simply place them in their own user directories
- -- without messing up the webroot directory.
Dave
On Monday 16 July 2001 21:05, thus spake Dennis Herndon:
> Thanks - I already know that. I guess I'm saying that as username
> DENNIS, I want to post what I created. When username DENNIS, try to
> copy files or create a PHP file under the webroot, I get a permission
> error. So I cheat and log in as ROOT to do the posting and everything
> is just fine.
>
> So how users post to the apache? When I use AOL and my website, I
> have permission to FTP my files to that directory.
> thanks.
>
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fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money.)
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