Re: /var/www/ and the user ho like to edit web pages

From: Alan Ianson (alianson_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 11/05/05

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    Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:00:25 -0800
To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    On Sat November 5 2005 09:24 am, Csanyi Pal wrote:
    > Hello!
    >
    > My system is Debian GNU/Linux Sarge.
    > I have installed apache 1.3.33
    >
    > I'm new to apache server.
    > I try to set up access to user "webeditor" so he may to write his web
    > pages in the /var/www/ directory in the webmin, but I don't know how to
    > do that.
    >
    > I also try to add the user "webeditor" to www-data group so he can to
    > write in the /var/www/ directory, but he still can't do that.
    >
    > webeditor has ~/public_html/ directory.
    > Is it the better way that that user "webeditor" to edit his web pages in
    > this directory and somehow set up apache so we can see his homepage
    > from there?
    >
    > I will appreciate any advices!

    Add /~username to your url and you'll get whatever is in that users
    public_html directory. You'll best su to root and copy your html's
    to /var/www so they display when someone accesses your regular url. 

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