Re: localhost

[Daryl <lists@soldmydata.online>]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 19:40:24 +0000
"Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> wrote:

> I am attempting to configure Apache2 (in Debian 10) as a local server
> for web site development.
> 
> I see on the "Apache2 Debian Default Page" the Debian logo; the
> browser reports the image location as:
> 
>     http://localhost/icons/openlogo-75.png
> 
> But when I use midnight commander to snoop around \var and other
> directories, I find no directory named "localhost".
> 
> The immediate goal of my investigation is to discover the location
> (with respect to "var/www" or "public_html") to which essential images
> such as web site logos and navigation button icons should be uploaded.
> 
> This investigation is part of my exploration of the "Perl Template
> Toolkit".  I am proceeding step-by-step through the tutorial presented
> in chapter 11 of the O'Reilly "Badger Book", but I do yet understand
> why images are not being displayed.
> 
> 

Localhost isn't a directory. It is the hostname from /etc/hosts. The
directory comes from what is configured
in /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Default is /var/www/html

So if you do:

printf "Found my localhost root directory\n" >> /var/www/html/test.txt

You can then navigate to http://localhost/test.txt and you'll see your
new message in your browser.