I have my raspberry pi setup as an internal web server. I have an external hard drive connected to the pi and mounted correctly.
I then symlink two folders from the hard drive to the web root on the pi, one is /Movies, and the other is /Series.
Initially this all works fine, as in if I hit http://192.168.1.17/Movies I get a list of all the files, I then click one and it starts playing no problem. However, after leaving it for a while and coming back, I can still get to the file directory in /Movies or /Series, but when I click a file, the web browser cannot open it.
I have no idea what's going on, it seems weird that I can still access the file directory, but playing a file doesn't work?
Any thoughts or help appreciated.
Are you using an apache server?
If so Symlinking is not a good idea.
An alternative which is more secure and may fix your problem is to install Userdir
sudo a2enmod userdir
Then you need to make a directory in home
mkdir public_html
Restart Apache
sudo service apache2 restart
If you want to change the home directory apache points to you can do so in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf .Then change the <Directory /home/*/public_html> to the directory you want.
To access you're server simply enter ip_of_Rpi/~pi_username. e.g 192.168.0.100/~pi
more details here: http://ubuntuserverguide.com/2012/10/how-to-enable-and-configure-apache2-userdir-module-in-ubuntu-server-12-04.html
If you are using Apache web server, you can use mod_alias to map some directory in a URL path like this
Alias /mnt/external_disk01/movies /Movies
Alias /mnt/external_disk02/series /Series
Before use alias, make sure it is activated.
To activate:
a2enmod alias
more info in http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html
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I am trying to set up a webserver running on Ubuntu. I have installed Apache and changed the root directory to an other directory within /var/www/. When I copy the index.html provided by Apache to that directory, I can access that file via remote webbrowser. But if I want to use a different index.html file, even really basic ones, I get an error: "Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource". I have also tried to download that html, alter just a few lines and put it back on to the server with the result that it also shows that error. If I rename the initially provided index.html to index2.html I can still access it. I do not understand how it is possible that only this exact file is working.
I have tried to grant more permissions with Directory and restarted Apache but it won't work. I am rather new to Linux and Apache, can only use the terminal on my webserver and I do not know what else to do. Please help.
Change the permissions on the file, too, not just the folder. Pretty sure this fix it.
For diagnostic correction, allow permission for all by typing:
sudo chmod -R 777 /path/to/index.html
I am on Kali linux which comes with the apache2 http installed. Under /var/www/ there is a index.html file which is the default index page that will show up on localhost. I have this folder containing all my .html .css .js and some pictures that I want to put on the Apache2 server. Should I just copy/paste the folder under /var/www ?
Thats the traditional way to do it.
if you have virtualhosts or something a bit more complex then you might consider something else but typically people just drop everything in under /var/www (or the equivalent for a given disto or OS )
Yes, though you may need to adjust the accsess rights, and if you want you can use the apache config, or mount --bind, or git clone/pull. Start with the simple option then look into the other options to see if they offer you any benefit.
I have an Ubuntu server setup in VMware workstation and if you load the IP from ifconfig you get "Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page" with the messsage "It works!"
However when I put a file into /var/www like info.php and then attempt to load that page using serverip/info.php i get 404 not found.
I have checked the directory and tried many files in the www folder but nothing seems to work :(
So it turns out the files needed to be put in /var/www/html folder
I don't know why even though apache2.conf states /www/ folder as be accessible by web
this is the folder where the actually files need to be :o
I've developed a website in cakephp and it is running successfully in localhost of my windows operating system.Now i need to make it run on Linus static IP server.I also need to know that what are all the softwares needed to install and implementation procedures to upload it and where to upload it.Any help would be greatly appreciate.
You have to research a bit more on the net, there's plenty of answers guiding you how to do it. Stackoverflow is more pertaining to specific coding questions. I personally prefer using amazon ec2 for uploading my cakephp applications.
There's lots of tutorials on how to set up a free tier linux server instance on ec2 all over the net. Here's a great one:
http://www.comtechies.com/2013/01/how-to-host-dynamic-php-website-on.html
Once you have your instance set up, this is what you have to do:
In apache your public folder will be /var/www/ so anything you put in there will be directly accessible to people by URL. Use putty to connect to your server.
sudo service apache2 stop
This will stop your apache server for security reasons while you upload etc.
Copy your project to /var/www/cakephp such that your webroot lies in /var/www/cakephp/app/webroot.
type the following to describe location of cakePHP
nano /var/www/cakePHP/app/webroot/index.php
Go to the line starting with define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH' and make it define('CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH', DS . 'var' . DS . 'www' . DS . cakephp . DS . lib') - assuming cakephp/lib is to be found in /var/www/cakephp/lib
Next, set the new document root:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
and wherever you see /var/www change it to /var/www/cakephp/app/webroot.
Also, in the change allowoverride none to allowoverride all the first two times they occur from the top of the document.
To allow apache to access your files and write to cache, execute the following commands:
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/myproject -R
sudo chmod 777 /var/www/myproject/tmp -R
To allow CSS to be applied properly:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Restart apache:
sudo service apache2 start
Now everything should be working according to plan. If you have any further questions do hit me back!
Simple question, but for some reason I couldn't find the exact answer on Google:
I have a fresh Ubuntu install on Slicehost, and would like to make a public directory in my home dir for a simple website containing a bunch of static HTML files. How do I do this? Is it just a matter of typing mkdir public_html and setting the permissions, or is there a cleaner way? (I remember in the past I've had issues where every time I copied a file into my public_html directory, I would have to manually set its permissions, which was quite frustrating.)
Assuming you've already installed apache, do the following:
sudo a2enmod userdir
sudo service apache2 reload
The first command enables the userdir apache mod, which does exactly what you want. The second reloads apache configurations so that it starts using the new configuration.
To install apache2:
sudo apt-get install apache2
Of course, you'll also need to make sure that the permissions on your public_html folder allow the www-data user to see the files in there -- 755 usually works well. To do this:
mkdir ~/public_html
chmod -R 755 ~/public_html
This will recursively (-R) go through your public_html and set the permissions to 755 (owner rwx, and both group and other r-x, r-x).
The other answers are on the right track with mod_userdir, but using that will give your website the base URL http://www.yourdomain.com/~username/ - for instance, a file /home/username/public_html/index.html would be accessible as http://www.yourdomain.com/~username/index.html. If you want your files to be accessible under the domain root, as http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html for example, then you'll need to put the directive
DocumentRoot /home/username/public_html
in the Apache configuration file.
You need to use mod_userdir for Apache, otherwise you need to set up symlinks from /var/www/ or wherever.
Your permissions issue is because Apache does not have read access to your files. You need to allow read access to www-data (or whatever the user is; distro-specific).