Web Space
This is the software that powers tamos.net. This is the complete reference from the Apache developers.
Every user can have a web directory called html in their home directory. Any
files put into this directory will be available to anyone on the web at large from
http://www.tamos.net/~username/. Before that can happen, the file permissions
on your home directory must be changed in order give access to the web daemon. This is
accomplished by typing "chmod go+x ~/.".
By default, an index is generated every time someone enters a directory. To override that
behavior, there are a couple things you can do. You could create a file that is displayed
instead of the generated index. The name of the file can be any of the following:
index.html, index.htm, default.html,
default.htm. There are others, but they are handled differently by the web
server. The other way is to turn off the indexing completely. This is done by creating a
.htaccess file in a directory where you want to turn off the indexing. The
line Options -Indexes will effectively turn off indexing. The
settings made in a .htaccess file are inherited by all other directories underneath that
directory. So, if you want to turn on indexing in a lower directory, you would create a
.htaccess file in that directory with Options +Indexes.
You can run cgi scripts from any directory granted the script is suffixed by .cgi. You will probably
have to create a .htaccess file in your directory with a line like Options +ExecCGI.
Another thing to keep in mind is that if you're using perl, the correct path to the perl executable is
/usr/bin/perl. (not /usr/local/bin/perl like a lot of scripts are setup for.) Also,
Tamos.net does not use cgi-lib. Instead, I'd
rather you use CGI.pm.
