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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Stephen Clement wrote:
>  
>
> > I've been trying to get httpd to work using 
> > the BasicLinux 3 ramdisk. 
> >    
>
> Do you mean the floppy version of BL3?  The floppy
> version uses ramdisks.  The DOS version uses loop.
>  
Yes, that's why I said it was the ramdisk one.

>  
>
> > Unfortunately, httpd seems to ignoring my httpd.conf. 
> >    
>
> Where did you put httpd.conf?
>  
I tried putting it in /etc/httpd.conf, and I also tried setting it with 
-c. Where _should_ I be putting it?

>  
>
> > I tried doing an httpd -v to see what version it was, 
> > but it hung when I tried this. 
> >    
>
> Apparently -v is an dead parameter.  The parser 
> recognizes it, but doesn't find anything to do.  
> CTRL-C gets you back.
>  
Any idea what version it is then?

>  
>
> > I can access httpd fine and get a wonderful 404 not 
> > found page using links or Mozilla on my other networked box, 
> > although I can't get anything else no matter what I specify 
> > in my httpd.conf. Any ideas?
> >    
>
> Start httpd in the directory you want to serve.
> For example, I've just started httpd in /root.
>  
Why does it do this? Because I have no httpd.conf?

> I can now read hotlist.html using links:
> -----------------------------
> d
> g
> http://localhost/hotlist.html
> -----------------------------
> It also works for:  http://localhost/netsetup
>
> Although I'm not on my LAN at the moment, I'm sure 
> it will work the same on that:
> -------------------------------
> http://192.168.1.1/hotlist.html
> -------------------------------
>
> Or, if you copy hotlist.html to index.html:
> ------------------
> http://192.168.1.1
> ------------------
>  
Ok, I have it working now. :) Time to serve up some files.

Thanks for all the help,

Stephen Clement

> Cheers,
> Steven
>