[Linux] Confounded by apache2 on ubuntu 7.10 server

[Steven Benmosh]

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I want to run a web site on my home computer, using ubuntu 7.10 server and
apache2. I have hosted similar sites in the past, and the configuration file
used to be httpd.conf - you put your named virtual host information there
and everything was fine. All the apache2 documentation I could find still
suggest the same.

Yet when I run ubuntu 7.10 server, the httpd.conf file is empty, and in its
stead you have two subdirectories, sites-enabled and sites-available, each
with its own default file. At this point I am not sure where I should
include the virtual server info.

The issue is not just how to get the server to run - using vmware I edited
both sites-available and sites-enabled default files - and I can see the web
pages. The questions are:

1. what is the right way to do it,

2. whether using httpd.conf will break things, and

3. why are these new ways of configuring not documented in a way that can be
found by an average person reading the apache documentation in either ubuntu
or apache web sites.


Thanks and Happy New Year.

Z.

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I want to run a web site on my home computer, using ubuntu 7.10 server and apache2. I have hosted similar sites in the past, and the configuration file used to be httpd.conf - you put your named virtual host information there and everything was fine. All the apache2 documentation I could find still suggest the same.
<br><br>Yet when I run ubuntu 7.10 server, the httpd.conf file is empty, and in its stead you have two subdirectories, sites-enabled and sites-available, each with its own default file. At this point I am not sure where I should include the virtual server info.
<br><br>The issue is not just how to get the server to run - using vmware I edited both sites-available and sites-enabled default files - and I can see the web pages. The questions are:<br><br>1. what is the right way to do it, 
<br><br>2. whether using httpd.conf will break things, and <br><br>3. why are these new ways of configuring not documented in a way that can be found by an average person reading the apache documentation in either ubuntu or apache web sites.
<br><br><br>Thanks and Happy New Year.<br><br>Z.<br>

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