[AKA Arizona]

I did a search and did not find exactly what I was looking for:

I have Kwrite open looking at my http.conf file

# This is here for backwards compatability reasons and to support
# installing 3rd party modules directly via apxs2, rather than
# through the /etc/apache2/mods-{available,enabled} mechanism.
#
#LoadModule mod_placeholder /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_placeholder.so

and my ports.conf has

Listen 80

my question is how and where do I put my information to allow my port 80 redirect my router redirects to 192.168.1.87 and my eth0 is set the same, to open my web sites www.akaarizona.com www.gadgetinc-ms.com www.ihim.us www.castawaypools.com www.ecocleancarpets.com and several others they are on a second hdd /mnt/hdc1

And I need an ftp service

[linuxphile]

If I understand correctly, you have added the port 80 redirection to your router so that port 80 requests are going to the Mepis machine. And what you are asking for now is how to get apache to serve up those domains, which are stored on a separate hard drive?

You will probably use VirtualHost declarations in your httpd.conf file. VirtualHosts allow you to configure apache to serve up different domains from different directories.

Here is an excerpt from my httpd.conf with the relavent VirtualHost declarations:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
Servername www.linuxphile.org
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/fairytale
Servername subdomain.linuxphile.org
</VirtualHost>


I recommend reading up on this at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/examples.html

[AKA Arizona]

OK so after the

# This is here for backwards compatability reasons and to support
# installing 3rd party modules directly via apxs2, rather than
# through the /etc/apache2/mods-{available,enabled} mechanism.
#
#LoadModule mod_placeholder /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_placeholder.so

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /mnt/hdc1/websites/akaaz/
Servername www.akaarizona.com
</VirtualHost>

and so on until I have all website listed

[linuxphile]

Correct, and after all the edits you'll need to restart Apache. You should of course make a backup copy of your httpd.conf prior to making any edits.

[AKA Arizona]

ok now you raised a new question how do I stop then restart apache?

[linuxphile]

I believe these will work for you:

/etc/init.d/apache restart
/etc/init.d/apache stop
/etc/init.d/apache start

[Squashman]

Since you are running Linux, I would suggest you run OpenSSH server. People can do secure connection to your server then to transfer files. Otherwise I suggest you use VSFTPD if you don't want to go the Secure Shell Server route.

[AKA Arizona]

OK I thought of one more, not all of my home pages are called index.htm or .html would I have to be specific on this line: DocumentRoot /mnt/hdc1/websites/akaaz/akaaz.html or is there something different I need to do?

[linuxphile]

You'll need a global directive:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.html.var index.cgi index.php

Put them in the order of precedence. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod...directoryindex has more info on this.

[Squashman]

There is a line in your httpd.conf file that says directory index. On this line you put what files you want. I usually change mine to default.html instead of index.html just because I like to be different.

DirectoryIndex default.html default.htm default.shtml default.php default.php4 default.php3 default.phtml default.cgi

[AKA Arizona]

so my httpd.conf would look like this:

# This is here for backwards compatability reasons and to support
# installing 3rd party modules directly via apxs2, rather than
# through the /etc/apache2/mods-{available,enabled} mechanism.
#
#LoadModule mod_placeholder /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_placeholder.so

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /mnt/hdc1/websites/akaaz/
DirectoryIndex akaarizona.html
Servername www.akaarizona.com
</VirtualHost>

[linuxphile]

You can put it inside the VirtualHost directives, but you could also make it global by placing it above the NameVirtualHost *:80 directive.

[AKA Arizona]

I stopped and started Apache2 and got this error for every website

[Fri Dec 09 14:02:52 2005] [error] VirtualHost *:80 -- mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results
[Fri Dec 09 14:02:52 2005] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

This is my httpd.conf file:

# This is here for backwards compatability reasons and to support
# installing 3rd party modules directly via apxs2, rather than
# through the /etc/apache2/mods-{available,enabled} mechanism.
#
#LoadModule mod_placeholder /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_placeholder.so
#
NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /mnt/hdc1/websites/AKAAZ/
DirectoryIndex akaarizona.html
Servername www.akaarizona.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /mnt/hdc1/websites/GADGET/gflash/
DirectoryIndex gflash.htm
Servername www.gadgetinc-ms.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /mnt/hdc1/websites/IHIM/
DirectoryIndex ihim.htm
Servername www.ihim.us
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /mnt/hdc1/websites/castaway/
DirectoryIndex castaway.htm
Servername www.castawaypools.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /mnt/hdc1/websites/ccleaner/
DirectoryIndex index.htm
Servername www.ecocleancarpets.net
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /mnt/hdc1/websites/PCSO/
DirectoryIndex index.html
Servername www.prentisscountysheriff.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /mnt/hdc1/websites/downinmexico/
DirectoryIndex downinmexico.html
Servername www.downinmexico.net
</VirtualHost>

[linuxphile]

Hrm. That's worked for me but I've also got my Listen 80 directive in my httpd.conf file, not a separate file. You can try changing the NameVirtualHost directive to:
#Replace 192168.X.X with the IP of your server.
NameVirtualHost 192.168.X.X

#Then Replace the <VirtualHost *:80> with (again replace 192.168.X.X with your server's IP)
<VirtualHost 192.168.X.X>

[AKA Arizona]

before I run with this further, my server is not connected to the location it will run from. I am at work the server will be at home, does that make a difference?