A Wee Problem with httpd.conf setup

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June 23rd, 2009, 07:11 PM

Ron Serling

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general - A Wee Problem with httpd.conf setup

Good afternoon one and all,
First let me say I am a very new user of Apache and setting up servers is really not my forte but I am doing it as a supplement to learning Perl and CGI programming. I have found a site that is a great tutorial for this and they are pretty helpful at setting up the server but I have run into a problem setting up the httpd.conf file. I am setting this up on a local system and am trying to get it so when I go to my localhost it will see adirectory on my machine and execute from there I am assuming that from there directions you need add UserDir into the file but when I do as they say I keep getting errors and Apache will not start up. They say to add the lines as stated:

UserDir "My Documents/My Website"
<Directory "C:/Documents and Settings/*/My Documents/My Website">
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Includes ExecCGI
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</LimitExcept>
</Directory>

And when I do this I get an error of unrecognized command in line "UserDir" check for misspell or module mismatch.

If I rem out the UserDir line it starts up fine

So my question is can anyone explain it a little better for me as I don't really understand how to set it up so it will go execute from my local directory

By the way I am using Apache 2.2.1 on a WinXp platform if you need to know. Any help would really be appreciated, thanks

Ron

July 1st, 2009, 06:29 AM

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You need to define the full path. Like:
UserDir "C:/My Documents/websites/"

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