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
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Michael Viron
Registered Linux User #81978
Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
At 04:34 PM 07/31/2001 -0400, Jon Doe wrote:
>Ok, I have got apache running, put in my own index.html and it works! But
how
>do I link to files I want to make availible? I made a directory
>/var/www/media but if I link a file that is there, I just get an error
>message when i click on the link, my link is:
>http://ip number/var/www/media/file.zip is this because of directory
>permissions?
>
