changing apache's www location

hi,

i have apache installed and noticed everything has to go in /var/www/ to be seen by the web server.

I noticed that it requires root access to move things in here and just to make things easier on me(as i just installed this and will be moving several things from the old setup) is there a way I can alter the location to a folder that I can access without problems?

also regarding the same thing, where do i go to dinf the config file to enable vhost?

thanks :)

Hello,

You need to sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default to make apache look at your web directory. mine looks like this: NameVirtualHost * <VirtualHost *> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /home/alistair/www/website/ <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /home/alistair/www/website/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes XBitHack on AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/alistair/www/website/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/home/alistair/www/website/cgi-bin"> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl 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 debug

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

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 need to replace /home/alistair/.... with your own directory.

Have a look at http://httpd.apache.org/ for the manual.

got it working like i want now, thanks for the help :)