Quote Originally Posted by gandalf458 View Post
I've changed the http.conf file to point to /home/user/www and restarted Ubuntu (I haven't figured out how to stop and restart the http server yet) but localhost still seems to be looking in /var/www

Any idea what I might be doing wrong please?
You can restart apache with:
Code:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart
I guess. Hit TAB after typing init.d/ to see all the possibilities