How do I create public html folder?

Question

I am a php programmer and new in ubuntu. Now I am using ubuntu 12.4 I need to create public html directory on my home directory for easy assess of php files. How can I create this public_html directory on my home folder. And how it configure as a apache server for run php scripts?

Solution 1

Apache comes with userdir module which lets you use /home/USER/public_html as root directory.

You will access this public_html as localhost/~USER/

You may need to enable userdir, if not enabled, which is done by:

sudo a2enmod

By default Apache uses /var/www as document root.

Or you can create a virtualhost with your specific document root as well.

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/httpd.html

Solution 2

What I did for my case is created public_html directory in my home directory and then created symlink in /var/www to point to this public_html directory (creating a symlink).

In order to create a symlink you have to use the following command:

sudo ln -s /home/$USER/public_html /var/www

here $USER is your username. For more details check the site mentioned above.

Comments

[Lucio]

Hi and welcome to Ask Ubuntu! There is a more generalized post here. Please take a look there and let us know if that post address your issue.

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[Bizzon]

I can't mark it as today. Stackoverflow says that "You can accept your own answer tomorrow". Then How can I?

[Huckle]

Anti-cheating measure. You can select another answer in the meantime (you can change it later).