RE: [newbie] Apache
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 June 2000 21:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Apache I have a domain name that is regestered to my IP address. Ok I got Apache to run on my Linux Box, but I can only create webpages that point to www.mydomainname.net/~myusername. What I want to do is creat a web page that points directly to www.mydomainname.net and get rid of the /~username. When I type in localhost or the address to my webserver I get a webpage from Apache saying that it worked. Can anyone out there tell me how to configure Apache to do this? I would greatly appreciate any refrences or information you could give me that may help. Thanks in advance! -derangedhermit There is normally a directory in /home called httpd, which contains the default www.mydomain.net stuff. Otherwise take a look at httpd.conf (can't remember where it is, type "find -name httpd.conf" to find it) and that contains helpful hints. Set Documentroot to wherever you want the webpages to start if you don't want to muck around with Httpd. Personally, I have httpd as a symbolic link to the directory on my Fat32 partition where my webpages are, so I can use them in Apache for win32 as well. -- Nick Avenell
RE: [newbie] installation question
-Original Message- From: Walter Hanagriff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 June 2000 09:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installation question i am reading the installation documentation at mandrake homepage to prepare myself, and a part in Installation with Drakx it says: Now you need to specify in DrakX where the various partitions on the hard disk(s) will be mounted. In Recommended mode, normally you won't have anything to do. If you have only a Windows partition it will be automatically resized and both the Linux partition and swap space will be created and formatted. I will be using recommended, and i only have one partition on this machine so far, with windows on it, but this thing says it will resize the partition and create and format linux partitions, will windows be deleted, or is this a safe partitioning of the disk, because i have heard that even with partition magic partitioning can be a little risky. and when it says it will automatically resize, do i get to say how much size each partition gets? how does it work? Before you do anything, even if people tell you that it won't delete anything, back up everything you hold dear on that HDD before resizing anything. (I know I said this before, but it is fairly important :-)
RE: [newbie] mouse problem
-Original Message- From: Walter Hanagriff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 June 2000 05:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mouse problem i read that mandrake can use almost any mouse, but i have a microsoft intellimouse,can linux also use that mouse? i dont know if they could make it only used on windows, since they also have the winmodem, which unfortunately i also have, and i hear cant be used on anything but windows. if you chose the Custom install option you get to chose what mouse you have, and The Intelimouse is there, otherwise it installs it as a standard 2 button PS2. I have the Intelimouse Explorer (the cool thing with the red light :-) and whilst I got most of it working, I was wondering if anyone knows of a util I could use to configure the two extra buttons on the side? -- Nicholas Avenell
RE: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition to Linux - how to fix
-Original Message- From: M. R. N. Weston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 June 2000 18:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Warning: Mandrake changed DOS extended partition to Linux - how to fix *de'snipity* If you have the same problem as this and this works then I feel I will have done my duty in life :) Secondly, and more vitally importantly than that, before you do *anything* with partition tables (Even with a "safe" program like partition magic) B A C K U P A L L D A T A F I R S T ! ! ! I can't stress this enough. Even with a professional (and non-destructive) program like PM *things go wrong* I lost my entire windows partition when resizing it, luckily I had, on a whim, copied all my data to my secondary HDD, and put everything on a zip disk, but I still lost all my E-Mails for 18 months and a few Websdesigns. -- Nick
