On Tuesday 31 July 2001 05:36 pm, you wrote:
> Jon,
>
> There's a few things wrong here:
>
> #1. In order to give access to /var/www/media (which isn't under the
> default document root of /var/www/html), you need to either alias it in the
> httpd.conf "Alias /media /var/www/media/" (without the quotes), or move it
> under /var/www/html.
>
> #2. The link that you are using is incorrect. Since apache is using
> /var/www/html as the document root, all documents (excluding aliased
> directories) are fetched relative to /var/www/html. This means the link
> http://ip_number/var/www/media/file.zip, is in fact attempting to find the
> file /var/www/html/var/www/media/file.zip (which isn't there).
>
> The correct link (once you've either aliased or moved the directory as in
> #1), would be http://ip_number/media/file.zip
>
> The answer to the question "Is this because of directory permissions?"
> would be no, at this point.
>
> Michael
>
Thanks for your help! Got it working! Apache is up and running and serving
webpages...lol Isn't linux great?
Thanks to all who have helped me get Apache up and running.
