I am now chosen responsible to manage the site www.osw.gliwice.pl which is a
placeholder page installed by the Debian
release of the Apache Web server package,
because no home page was installed on this host. I would like to replace
this as soon as possible with our own web pages. I have no idea yet because I
have no information about the server nor our ISP.
Where might be our server? Who is our ISP? How do I (what do I
need to ) get access to this server in order to adapt to our
need the configuration in the following directories found on the
temporary site?
Configuration files can be found in /etc/apache.
The DocumentRoot, which is the directory under which all your
HTML files should exist, is set to /var/www.
CGI scripts are looked for in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, which is where
Debian packages will place their scripts.
Log files are placed in /var/log/apache, and will be rotated
daily. The frequency of rotation can be easily changed by editing
/etc/apache/cron.conf.
The default directory index is index.html, meaning that
requests for a directory /foo/bar/ will give the contents of the
file /var/www/foo/bar/index.html if it exists (assuming that
/var/www is your DocumentRoot).
User directories are enabled, and user documents will be looked for in
the public_html directory of the users' homes. These dirs should be
under /home, and users will not be able to symlink to files they don't
own.