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Date:      Sat, 8 Jan 2000 11:42:46 -0700
From:      "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Apache DocumentRoot
Message-ID:  <017401bf5a1e$9b66fd80$189cc5d1@webserver>

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From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Saturday, January 08, 2000 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: Apache DocumentRoot


>Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> > Just installed Apache+PHP. Will be using it to begin with,
exclusively fr
> > local development. Where should my DocumentRoot be in Unix/FBSD? I've
got
> > Xitami/PHP/mySQL on my win95 HDD. Xitami simplifies it by insisting
on
> > either /webpages or /cgi-bin. TIA!
>
>I think, by default the Apache port assumes that your Document-
>Root is at /usr/local/share/apache/htdocs for static pages, and
>/usr/local/share/apache/cgi-bin for CGI programs and scripts.
>You can change these directories in your Apache config, which
>is /usr/local/etc/apache/apache.conf (you'll have to modify
>that file to fit your own needs anyway).
>
>Use the command ``apachectl configtest'' to check the syntax of
>your config file after you've done any modifications.  Then use
>``apachectl restart'' to restart Apache, in order to let any
>modifications take effect.  Watch Apache's error_log file
>afterwards, in case any problems arise from your modifications.
>
>Regards
>   Oliver


As usual, an extremely informative and *clear* answer! I'm grateful, but
green with envy...... where did you get all this knowledge? Any chance of
a Star Trek Vulcan mind probe/transfer?  ;-)

regards........-duke



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