Apache2 questions

[Le grand pinguin]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:40:21PM -0500, Drew, Bill wrote:
> I looked in the forums and couldn't find the answers I need there. Here
> are my questions in order as I think they need to be answered.  I am a
> relative newbie to linux but not to the web and creating webpages.  I
> got the server to run by going to /usr/share/apache2 and doing "apache2
> -k start".

Probably not what you want to do. Iff you got apache2 installed as a
Debian/Ubuntu package then there should be a file '/etc/init.d/apache2'.
You can use this script to start/stop/restart etc. the server, just do an:

 sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

 > 1. How do I get apachectl to run?  I get "command not found." messages.
> What directory in root session do I need to be in?

The init-script is doing this for you - in the right environment, so use
it.

> 2. How do I change the default start-up page?  What directory? Apache2
> documentation does not tell how to do that as far as I can tell.

Have a look at the configuration files in '/etc/apache2/sites-available/default'
There you'll find the setting for 'DocumentRoot' (should be '/var/www').

> 3. How do I get apache2 to start at bootup?

Either create maual links from the init script to the runlevel directories
or do:

 sudo update-rc.d apache2 defaults

HTH Ralf Mattes

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