uploading files to LAMP on UBUNTU Desktop

[shelac]

Everything seems to be working very nicely thanks to your patience and dedication. I was able to use Filezilla to copy a number of files to the UBUNTU server and do all the tricks with them.

I do have a couple of questions though.

I set up “rgc” as the “testuser” in the example that you provided. I’m curious if I would do any damage if I altered the /etc/passwd file to add the super user “ray” to be able to access the server? Not a necessity, just wondering.

ray:x:1001:1001:rgc,,,:/home/./ray:/bin/bash

Also in Post 16 you mentioned:

Note:
after the changes you will loose phpmyadmin; a hurdle that we can take later. So don't panic

Is there something special that I will need to do to be able to access the phpmyadmin utility now?

My education in making this all work has taken a long path and I am thrilled to be able to have a local developmental server available to play with.

Now I just have to figure out how to set up Dreamweaver so that I can have it copy my work to the LAMP server. I’m not there yet.

[Wim Sturkenboom]

You should be able to use your user 'ray' in ftp. But 'ray' will be locked to his home directory so can not access the files of user 'rgc'.

With regards to phpadmin, I assume that that is still installed in /var/www and therefore no longer accessible.

What I suggest is to configure (another) virtual hosts. To do so, make a copy of your /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/phpmyadmin

Next modify the phpmyadmin file that you just created. The below example is based on the very original default file, not the one you modified.

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

	ServerName phpmyadmin
	DocumentRoot /var/www/phpmyadmin
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
	<Directory /var/www/phpmyadmin/>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
		AllowOverride None
		Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>

	ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

	# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
	# alert, emerg.
	LogLevel warn

	CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

You also need to create an entry in /etc/hosts for this new website; add the red line below. You need root privileges to edit the file.

127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.1.1	wim-desktop
127.0.0.1	phpmyadmin

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Next issue the following 2 commands; the first one enables the new site on your system and the second one is obvious (I guess)

sudo a2ensite phpmyadmin
sudo service apache2 restart

Next you can use a browser to access the sites
http://localhost will give you the site that we created earlier (in your home directory)
http://phpmyadmin will give you phpmyadmin located in /var/www/phpmyadmin.

PS
Virtual hosts is the normal way to allow one webserver to serve different websites (including different domains and subdomains).

[shelac]

Sorry for the delay in responding. Sometimes life gets in the way. Everything is behaving according to plan now. I appreciate all that you have done for me.

I have one last question and this may not be the place for it but it is on the same theme. Sort of.

I notice that sometimes when searching the Internet for documents, I will get a Directory listing of files and folders instead of an error message such as “File not found” is this a setting on the server?

Now I will figure out how to set this as “Solved”. It has been a long haul but I am a bit smarter now. Thanks.

[Wim Sturkenboom]

It was a pleasure.

I notice that sometimes when searching the Internet for documents, I will get a Directory listing of files and folders instead of an error message such as “File not found” is this a setting on the server?

You have to elaborate a bit on what you exactly mean, but I guess it's a setting on the server or a dedicated error page that gives a directory listing

It might however be outside my league. There is a dedicated server section ( http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=339 ) where your question might fit better. This thread was also started as a thread about uploading, so the title no longer covers the content and therefore might not attract the right people to answer

Good luck

[shelac]

Just when I thought that everything was well in my world, I discovered another impediment to my progress. It seems that Apache2 needs to have rights to create a file in my working folders. And I suspect that it would also require rights to create a temp file wherever that should happen. I haven’t figured out where that is yet since I have not been able to create one. As always any ideas would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.

[Wim Sturkenboom]

I was wondering when that question was coming In post #20 I gave a possible solution with setfacl.

For your setup, a simple chgrp might be easier to give write access.

wim@i3-2120:~$ ls -ld testdir/
drwxrwxr-x 2 wim wim 4096 Nov  1 17:49 testdir/
wim@i3-2120:~$ sudo chgrp www-data testdir/
[sudo] password for wim: 
wim@i3-2120:~$ ls -ld testdir/
drwxrwxr-x 2 wim www-data 4096 Nov  1 17:49 testdir/
wim@i3-2120:~$

Replace testdir with the path to the document root. Make sure the group's permissions are rwx.

I'm not sure if this will take care of temporary files, but I have not had problems on my Slackware server with temporary files.