Re: web server for development
On 1/9/2020 7:16 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> For development of a web pages, I installed Apache2 on another machine
> in the LAN so that I can FTP web pages from the development machine to
> the web server and view the pages from the development machine.
>
> But the installation of Apache2 on Buster serves documents from
> /var/www/html/, which is owned by root, so as a normal user I cannot
> FTP into that directory.
>
> The web server is not exposed outside the LAN, so security is not an
> issue.
>
> What is the proper approach?
>
One way would be:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_userdir.html
More as an alternative to apache on an hother host:
- using the built-in webserver in 'hugo'
- Python http.server
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John Doe
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