On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:23:56PM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > On Mon, June 11, 2012 17:15, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > > Dear List - > > > > > > I have a deficiency in my knowledge of paths. > > > > > > Will you please help. > > > > > > My working directory is /var/www/Webpages2 > > > > > > In that directory I have a file b.mp4. > > > > > > This file also is in /home/ethan/Gingy/Pictures/Vol_1 > > > > > > If I access b.mp4 in /var/www/Webpages2, [src="b.mp4"] the file is found. > > > > > > It is not found using the full path [src=" > > > /home/ethan/Gingy/Pictures/Vol_1/b.mp4"] . > > > > > > Where is my error? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Ethan Rosenberg > > > > > > > How do you access it? If with a web browser (as the folder /var/www > > suggests), it is not possible to access anything out of /var/www. > > > > You can move the file to /home/ethan/public_html/Gingy/Pictures/Vol_1 and > > access it via http://server/~ethan/Gingy/Pictures/Vol_1/b.mp4 > > Assuming apache (a logical assumption here), indeed, only items in the > webroot (/var/www/* in your case) will be served. > However, you needn't necessarily move the file there. > You could also symlink it. > On one of my servers, I have a lot of stuff in a subdir of the /home for an extra user I created that is symlinked in /var/www, like > ln -s /var/www/somedir /home/dude/somedir > This I do because the / root partition has only 20gb, while my /home > partition has nearly the remainder of a 500gb hdd. > > Just an option to consider. > > Either way, you've got to either move the file to webroot (/var/www/) > or symlink it. I just realized how odd a configuration that must seem for a server. To explain, the machine in question was a my regular desktop for a few good years, a celeron 3.2ghz single core with only 1.5gb ram, however, and was replaced for my work purposes this winter, so now is serving as a server. I didn't reinstall the OS or anything, just kept the machine as is, but deleted a lot of unneeded stuff and, of course, added apache and anything else a server needs. It hosts a dokuwiki for my personal use, test space/playground for my friendica and other web development activities. The dokuwiki is in the /home partition and symlinked, as noted, as are some other materials. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! 3F330C6E
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