Re: First time setting up site on Apache

[André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

DarkMatter2009 wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am relatively new to using Apache,
That's fine.  We always welcome new converts, and we like newbies : they 
 are usually polite, humble, they don't think thy know everything, and 
they are easy to impress.
:-)

 I have recently set it up on Ubuntu.
That may be a bit of a problem.  You probably did this using the Ubuntu 
package management utilities (like apt-get ?).  You have to know that 
these special per-platform packages install and distribute and configure 
Apache in a way that is different for each platform.  So we do not 
necessarily know where the Apache bits and pieces are on your system, 
and this makes it a bit more difficult to help you.

> What I'm trying to do is make
> "/home/yves/MyFirstPHP/MyFirstPHP/HelloWorld.php" accessible through my
> browser using the URL: http://localhost/MyFirstPHP/HelloWorld.php.
Ha, you are also using PHP.
Another thing to know thus : Apache is one thing, and PHP is another.
On this forum, we can certainly help you with Apache.
But maybe not with configuring PHP inside of Apache.

 The
> tutorials I have found so far are confusing at best as I tend to digest
> knowledge better from looking at full examples. If anybody could give me a
> full example of what I'd put into whichever configure file I'm supposed be
> working with I will greatly appreciate it.

Unfortunately, probably nobody here can do that, because they do not 
know your system, and may or may not know how to set up PHP on it, so 
that your link above would work.
For that, you may have to go to a PHP forum, or an Ubuntu forum.

But if you want, we can try to tell you more or less how Apache works, 
and where it looks for things.  Maybe that will help you figure out your 
way through the PHP tutorials.

For example, the directory you mention above (/home/yves/) is not where 
a "standard" Apache is looking for documents or scripts.  Maybe PHP does 
that, but I don't know about that part.

I do not know Ubuntu per se, but I believe it is similar to Debian, and 
I know Debian.  So in what follows, take everything a bit cautiously, 
always thinking that on your system things my be a bit different.
Follow the explanations hereafter, line by line, and check at each line 
that it is really so on your system.

Apache is started/stopped by a system script : /etc/init.d/apache2

The first thing Apache does when started, is read its main configuration 
file, which is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.

In that configuration file, there is a line that tells Apache to read 
further configuration files, which are stored in 
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled.  These are in fact links to the real 
configuration files, which are in /etc/apache2/sites-available.

One of these files in /etc/apache2/sites-available is a file called 
"default" or ".default", which provides the configuration for the first 
(and by default the only) Apache "virtual host".

In that file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default, is a line
DocumentRoot xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
where xxxxxxxxxxx is the place where, by default, Apache looks for 
documents. (It is probably something like "/var/www" or 
"/var/www/htdocs").  What is it on your system ?

When you start Apache, and enter in the browser the URL 
"http://localhost";, what do you see ?


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