KevinReichard
07-17-2002, 10:57 AM
These talkbacks are in response to the article, Getting Started with Apache 1.3 (http://www.serverwatch.com/stypes/servers/article.php/1130981).
George Flatman writes:
I would like to know what the robots.txt file is? Also Apache is not displaying my web pages right anybody who hits my site at www.theedge2k.com sees nothing but a blank white screen no matter wether they are trying to access the site on the internet or my lan, yet i can view the web pages fine in my web page editor.
Rastar writes:
I have on numerous occasions type rpm -i apach* and have even downloaded the tar file and installed them in the /home/ /apache dir's. Now and this goes to figure Apache and myself are extremely confused when runtime is there.
I also used comanche to configure it without much success actually. Any suggestions short of formatting and reinstalling linux?
When I get it cleaned up I would like to use apache to administer my web page. I have a domain name of will that work there is now www before it?
I run linux-mandrake 7.2
PacSmell DSL
Linksys Router
Dee writes:
Hi, I have users who can ftp/telnet into my box, with their own login/pass (a shell account) how would I go about giving each user their own web page such as a public_html so users would get a http://www.mydomain.com/~username/ site? Can apache do this? If yes, how?
tony writes:
I get the error message 'couldn't spawn child process' for php or perl scripts. Anyone know what this means? I'm running Apache on Win32 (finally) - specifically Windows 98 SE.
Keith O. McKeever, Jr. writes:
I am totally new at this but my host has given me full access to the portion of the server where my site is housed. I need to start creating my aliased mail account in there and the extent of what my host told me was to open .qmail-default in Notepad and edit it with the aliases...etc. How do I go about putting that stuff in there...I am confused...
Jill writes:
I need to change the default of 256 clients. I know its in httpd.h and you change the Hard Server Max or somthing like that, don't have it in front of me. Question do I have to recompile the whole server again or does anyone know a trick, perhaps hex editing a paticular file or somthing less drastic then recompiling the whole thing.
Gavin writes:
I've got the apache server running on my win 98, I would like to know how to ftp to it. Can you point me to docs or other information sources I can read more about this? Thanks for any help you can give.
Steve Barr writes:
I have apache installed and running on a Sun UNIX box. The problem I have is changing the URL name. i have to type this to get to my home page: www.myurl.com:1393. How do i change this to www.myurl.com with not port number?
arthur responds:
To my knowledge, the only time you don't have to explicitly name the port on the url is when you use the default port for that protocol. For http the default port is 80.
If your web server is using port 1393 then there is no simple and straightforward way (you could redirect...) to get around this.
In other words, as far as I know, you can't change what the default port is for the protocol and this makes sense b/c the client needs to initiate communications to the server and even if you could change the default for the server, the client would never have any way of knowing this b/f it initiated the communication. Therefore, there must be some agreed upon standards which there are, and for http the standard/default port is 80. For https it's 443.
The only reasons I can think of for changing the default port from 80 to something else are 1) port 80 is being used by some other server, 2) your isp is blocking port 80 (a popular thing these days with all the viruses, 3) for security...
In conclusion :-) you must change your apache configuration to use port 80 and if something else is using port 80 then you're stuck with always having to manually type in the port 1393 or whatever unless you host a page on some other server (where port 80 is available) and then have that page redirect you to yours.
Hope that helps and clarifies...
Arthur Gaisin
Jeff writes:
First of all, I am new to Apache Web Server. I have been using IIS for 4 years now and I am tired of the security holes in it! :) So, I am moving to Apache. There are several things I need help on, some which reading the docs will explain. Any help here would be great as well.
1. I am using Exchange 2000 with the OWA client (Outlook Web Access). Is there way to use OWA under Apache? Presently, the only option I found is to run an Intranet Site for OWA on the IIS server and Apache on the Internet Site.
2. I host web sites that users use FrontPage. Presently this is supported by IIS. I understand all that is needed is to download the module and add it to the apache list. Is this correct?
3. This works along with question number 2. I am still a bit confused on security. I am use to NTFS permissions on security folders and so forth. What is the process of securing directories under Linux/apache? How does this work with FrontPage access and the latest creation of WebDAV?
4. Last question, in the past, I have seen when a user logs in via FTP it goes directly to their home directory instead of the /root. This is different for each user that logs in. Where is this configured?
Matt writes:
I have recently installed Microsoft's PWS on my computer, and decided Apache would be a better choice. So I left it on and got Apache. I can get my PWS site to work, but not my Apache site. I know very little about servers, and was wondering what I can do to get my site up and running on Apache. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
R. Apgar responds:
I had the same problem and found that I needed to turn off PWS as the default server. Apache started up after that.
Shibshankar writes:
I have installed Apache server for Win NT machine and it is working fine. But I am bot able to run the CGI scripts at all. I installed Active PERL and with that in the command prompt I can see my perl sripts are good enought to generate a valid html page. I tried the same files in other UNIX machine and there it is working fine.
My question is do I require to set any file type properties in windows NT explorer or do I require to configure my server using conf files?
I tried with adding ScriptAlias and AddHandler into srm.conf file as well as httpd.conf file also but could not get succeeded.
Can anyone please give some pointer to solve this problem.
George Flatman writes:
I would like to know what the robots.txt file is? Also Apache is not displaying my web pages right anybody who hits my site at www.theedge2k.com sees nothing but a blank white screen no matter wether they are trying to access the site on the internet or my lan, yet i can view the web pages fine in my web page editor.
Rastar writes:
I have on numerous occasions type rpm -i apach* and have even downloaded the tar file and installed them in the /home/ /apache dir's. Now and this goes to figure Apache and myself are extremely confused when runtime is there.
I also used comanche to configure it without much success actually. Any suggestions short of formatting and reinstalling linux?
When I get it cleaned up I would like to use apache to administer my web page. I have a domain name of will that work there is now www before it?
I run linux-mandrake 7.2
PacSmell DSL
Linksys Router
Dee writes:
Hi, I have users who can ftp/telnet into my box, with their own login/pass (a shell account) how would I go about giving each user their own web page such as a public_html so users would get a http://www.mydomain.com/~username/ site? Can apache do this? If yes, how?
tony writes:
I get the error message 'couldn't spawn child process' for php or perl scripts. Anyone know what this means? I'm running Apache on Win32 (finally) - specifically Windows 98 SE.
Keith O. McKeever, Jr. writes:
I am totally new at this but my host has given me full access to the portion of the server where my site is housed. I need to start creating my aliased mail account in there and the extent of what my host told me was to open .qmail-default in Notepad and edit it with the aliases...etc. How do I go about putting that stuff in there...I am confused...
Jill writes:
I need to change the default of 256 clients. I know its in httpd.h and you change the Hard Server Max or somthing like that, don't have it in front of me. Question do I have to recompile the whole server again or does anyone know a trick, perhaps hex editing a paticular file or somthing less drastic then recompiling the whole thing.
Gavin writes:
I've got the apache server running on my win 98, I would like to know how to ftp to it. Can you point me to docs or other information sources I can read more about this? Thanks for any help you can give.
Steve Barr writes:
I have apache installed and running on a Sun UNIX box. The problem I have is changing the URL name. i have to type this to get to my home page: www.myurl.com:1393. How do i change this to www.myurl.com with not port number?
arthur responds:
To my knowledge, the only time you don't have to explicitly name the port on the url is when you use the default port for that protocol. For http the default port is 80.
If your web server is using port 1393 then there is no simple and straightforward way (you could redirect...) to get around this.
In other words, as far as I know, you can't change what the default port is for the protocol and this makes sense b/c the client needs to initiate communications to the server and even if you could change the default for the server, the client would never have any way of knowing this b/f it initiated the communication. Therefore, there must be some agreed upon standards which there are, and for http the standard/default port is 80. For https it's 443.
The only reasons I can think of for changing the default port from 80 to something else are 1) port 80 is being used by some other server, 2) your isp is blocking port 80 (a popular thing these days with all the viruses, 3) for security...
In conclusion :-) you must change your apache configuration to use port 80 and if something else is using port 80 then you're stuck with always having to manually type in the port 1393 or whatever unless you host a page on some other server (where port 80 is available) and then have that page redirect you to yours.
Hope that helps and clarifies...
Arthur Gaisin
Jeff writes:
First of all, I am new to Apache Web Server. I have been using IIS for 4 years now and I am tired of the security holes in it! :) So, I am moving to Apache. There are several things I need help on, some which reading the docs will explain. Any help here would be great as well.
1. I am using Exchange 2000 with the OWA client (Outlook Web Access). Is there way to use OWA under Apache? Presently, the only option I found is to run an Intranet Site for OWA on the IIS server and Apache on the Internet Site.
2. I host web sites that users use FrontPage. Presently this is supported by IIS. I understand all that is needed is to download the module and add it to the apache list. Is this correct?
3. This works along with question number 2. I am still a bit confused on security. I am use to NTFS permissions on security folders and so forth. What is the process of securing directories under Linux/apache? How does this work with FrontPage access and the latest creation of WebDAV?
4. Last question, in the past, I have seen when a user logs in via FTP it goes directly to their home directory instead of the /root. This is different for each user that logs in. Where is this configured?
Matt writes:
I have recently installed Microsoft's PWS on my computer, and decided Apache would be a better choice. So I left it on and got Apache. I can get my PWS site to work, but not my Apache site. I know very little about servers, and was wondering what I can do to get my site up and running on Apache. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
R. Apgar responds:
I had the same problem and found that I needed to turn off PWS as the default server. Apache started up after that.
Shibshankar writes:
I have installed Apache server for Win NT machine and it is working fine. But I am bot able to run the CGI scripts at all. I installed Active PERL and with that in the command prompt I can see my perl sripts are good enought to generate a valid html page. I tried the same files in other UNIX machine and there it is working fine.
My question is do I require to set any file type properties in windows NT explorer or do I require to configure my server using conf files?
I tried with adding ScriptAlias and AddHandler into srm.conf file as well as httpd.conf file also but could not get succeeded.
Can anyone please give some pointer to solve this problem.