Okay, at first glance what you said was just a lot of jargon. I'm
slowly trying to translate, so please tell me if I'm on the right
track.
1) What's a "graceful" restart? Right now, I'm just pressing restart
on the simple control panel godaddy gives me. When I ssh in, what
should I type in? (I'm guessing you mean restarting Apache and not the
whole server--right? How do you do that?)
2) Where are these VirtualHost Settings stored? I don't see them in
/etc/httpd/conf/welcome.conf I don't really need a VirtualHost (I
think), because this server will be for only one site. Is there any
downside to using a Virtual Host?
3) What does "non-matching requests (that don't contain a matching
Host: header)" mean?
4)Where is the DirectoryIndex directive? What does it do?
5)I sense a lot of reading coming up for me...
Thanks so much!
--Urijah
On 2/8/07, Sander Temme <sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 8, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Urijah Kaplan wrote: > That worked! I restarted (I didn't know I had to do that--when am I > supposed to restart?) and the folder from /home/<my name>/public_html > popped up. Seizing the opportunity, I put in my website there > (changing the default.htm to index.html) and it worked! So, this > experience leaves me with a few questions > > 1.When should I know to restart the server? When you change the configuration file(s). Usually, a 'graceful' restart is enough. > 2. Why aren't the pages being served from /var/www/html/ like the > DocumentRoot says? Is there another configuration file that's > overriding it somewhere? As soon as you define <VirtualHost> containers, they take over from the 'Main Server' configuration. The first virtual host in your configuration is the Default and receives non-matching requests (that don't contain a matching Host: header). > 3) Why can't I use default.htm (not a big deal obviously) Add it to the DirectoryIndex directive. You can do this per virtual host. > 4) Since I clearly don't know what I'm doing, what would be a good > resource/book to use to teach me more about Apache/Linux? The Apache documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ I have always liked "Apache: the Definitive Guide" by Ben and Peter Laurie: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596002033? tag=sandersweblog-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASI N=0596002033&adid=0H8M3S43QATSYC94MFXZ& Also, hang out on this list and you'll be helping other people in no time! S. -- sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.temme.net/sander/ PGP FP: 51B4 8727 466A 0BC3 69F4 B7B8 B2BE BC40 1529 24AF
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