Comments on: How to Configure Apache Web Server on Linux

By: Jean-Yves

Jean-Yves — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:08:45 +0000

I still don't have permissions for /var/www

but everething works fine with site/ and site2
thank's for
127.0.0.1 localhost site1 site2
both sites work well now.
Thank again !
Merci beaucoup !

By: Linerd

Linerd — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:08:33 +0000

You can change the ownership of index.html with:

chown yourid index.html

You may want to change the ownership of /var/www if that's how you want to work. See my above correction about the ownership of that directory.

cd /var
sudo chown yourid:yourid www

By: Jean-Yves

Jean-Yves — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:16:26 +0000

Thank you for your help.
I tried the command :
sudo adduser myid www-data
I gave my password
and I got
Adding user myid to group www-data

but I still don't have permissions to modify the index.html file

By: Linerd

Linerd — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:40:04 +0000

If you created the webdev folder without using sudo, then you should have write permissions to that folder. If you don't own the folder, then you should be able to change the ownership with the chown command. If you want to change the permissions, then chmod is the command you want to use. Look at the man pages for these commands for more info. If you follow this tutorial, you won't need permissions to the /var/www/ folder since you'll be putting the files in a folder under your home directory. If you want to put your files in the /var/www/ directory, you can add your userID to the www-data group with this terminal command: [term]sudo adduser yourid www-data[/term] Correction: I just looked at my system and /var/www is owned by root.

By: Jean-Yves

Jean-Yves — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:06:48 +0000

I'am a (very) new user of Ubuntu. I used to work with Wamp server in Windows.
How can I create websites when I don't have permissions to write in the webdev forder ? How can I get permissions ?

By: Phew … « Something …

Phew … « Something … — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:21:43 +0000

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By: Bobot

Bobot — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:43:53 +0000

wow, i am excited. thanks a lot for the new command "sudo a2dissite".

buenas noches and again muchas gracias.

By: Linerd

Linerd — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:03:52 +0000

It sounds like you did it right. You can also disable a site with the sudo a2dissite command. It will remove the symlinks for you.

By: Bobot

Bobot — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:05:00 +0000

this tutorial, along with the tutorial on LAMP installation is great. thanks a lot.

with the two tutorials i managed to set up my own web development environment. with a lot of tail chasing though, and lots of help from you. again, thanks a lot.

i have some questions though. after i was done with the set up, i realised that i did not like the directory placements, directory names, and host names. i figured that maybe i don't have to do it over again.

so what i did was to instead, just (1) move the directories to where i wanted them to be, (2) rename the directories, (3) tinker on the configuration files (found in /etc/apache2/sites-available$) for the hosts i have made before and rename them according to my desire, (4) delete the symlinks i found in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled, (5)tinker on the file /etc/hosts and change the first line accordingly (i.e. 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost2 localhost3 localhost4), (6) execute sudo a2ensite for the sites, (7) reloaded apache, and finally (8) check on my browser. it worked!!!...

my only fear is, am did i do it right? did i not break anything with what i did? muchas gracias.

By: jben

jben — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:42:16 +0000

Wow thanks alot, that worked like a charm, I use VMWare to test ie6-8 and for some reason it doesn't recognize the host machines site1 or site2 unless you change the host file. If anyone is wondering where this is located for windows XP: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

I suggest you assign a static address to your machine to make life easier.

I hate ie 6! Thanks a ton, this guide has been very useful.