[ubuntu-za] Superuser

[Darrel]

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:04 +0200, Charl Wentzel wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 12:42 +0200, Corrie Strydom wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Darrel <darrel at celebrationsfs.co.za>
> > wrote:
> 
> >         Talking of which what am I doing wrong here?
> >         
> >         root at point:~# sudo cp /home/darrel/Websites/sapis /var/www/
> >         cp: omitting directory `/home/darrel/Websites/sapis'
> >         
> >         
> >         sapis is a folder containg files for a website
> 
> > 
> > Darrel, try "sudo cp -R /home/darrel/Websites/sapis /var/www/"
> > 
> 
> If you do that you will create a directory /var/www/sapis.  This means
> that your website must now be accessed as:
>   http://localhost/sapis
> 
> This is not a bad idea if you are going to have multiple test sites on
> your machine, i.e. giving them each their own directory.
> 
> However, if this is going to be the only site on the machine, rather
> use: 
>   sudo cp -R /home/darral/Websites/sapis/* /var/www/
> 
> This copies the contents of the directory without not creating the
> directory as well.
> 
> Charl
> 
> 
Hi Charl thanks for the info,I will however be using the server for
multiple sites.
   
  I am thinking of scrapping the phpmyadmin package and rather use the
LAMP server available using sudo tasksel

Darrel

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