editing httpd.conf??

[Hype.it]

Help.. does anyone know how i edit this file? What command i use in terminal and erm... how i get above root (as in webserver) access?

[btoth]

Originally Posted by Hype.it

Help.. does anyone know how i edit this file? What command i use in terminal and erm... how i get above root (as in webserver) access?

At the terminal:

$ cd /etc/httpd
$ sudo <name of program/command> httpd.conf

sudo will ask you for your admin password and will allow you to save changes to the file. If you use BBEdit, you don't need to do that step, but if you wanted to edit it with pico for example you would type:

$ sudo pico httpd.conf

Or try

$ sudo open httpd.conf to have the Finder open it in the default App.

[Hype.it]

thanks... btoth.

But now i like to setup some sub-domains and have above root (or document in webserver, not user) access in my webserver for the storage of config files. Anyone know how i do this?

[michaelsanford]

Do you mean you want to set up things like subdomain.hype.it ?

That will be in a VirtualHost (Section 3) directive near line 1029, just set the DocumentRoot directive to whatever folder you want.

[Hype.it]

Originally Posted by michaelsanford

Do you mean you want to set up things like subdomain.hype.it ?

That will be in a VirtualHost (Section 3) directive near line 1029, just set the DocumentRoot directive to whatever folder you want.

Thanks you, that's one thing, then there is the other...

Currently as it stand it's appears to be like this (which is the default)

URL "http://127.0.0.1/"

Path: "/Library/WebServer/Documents/"
Path: "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/"

And any config files would be contained within Documents or maybe in CGI-Bin. Either way, they are accessible to users. What i'd like to know, is there a way to place them 'out of documents or www' into another folder that's considered above or out of web access. Which only the server can see, such as:

Path: "/Library/WebServer/ConFigs"

Thanks in advance.

[michaelsanford]

What config files do you mean ? Do you mean like PHP/CGI script files or server configuration files of some kind ?

[Hype.it]

Server configuration files and various things that need to be hidden from user access, only need server read and possibly execute rights.

configs.php
includes
global includes

eCommerce dbconfigs.php

I could do it on my former host with the help of the hostmaster doing something but now I've chosen to build a dedicated server and co-locate later. Anyway, this is for a off-line testing server

Please help.

[michaelsanford]

For some reason I've noticed that my last reply was never submitted!

Basically if it's a conifg file that sets PHP variables you don't need to protect it, really, since simply hitting the config script in a browser won't print out all the configuration variables.

Most of the sites I've written are based on this principle, and big popular apps like phpMyAdmin are also.