Setting up your server on mongoose.aul.fiu.edu

Creating directories and changing permissions

• Log onto mongoose.aul.fiu.edu
• Allow everyone to access your root directory
  chmod  711  ~
• Create server root and document root directories
  mkdir  3993.server
mkdir  3993.data
• Allow access to both of these directories
  chmod  711  3993.server  
chmod  755  3993.data
• Change to the 3993.server directory and create the conf, cgi-bin, logs, and icons directories
  cd  ~/3993.server
mkdir  conf
mkdir  cgi-bin
mkdir  logs
mkdir  icons
mkdir  etc
mkdir  errors
• Change the permissions to restrict access
  chmod  700  conf logs icons etc errors
chmod  711  cgi-bin
• Change to the conf directory and copy the configuration files to your directory
  cd  conf
cp  ~downeyt/public/conf/*  .

Editing the configuration files

• Change to the 3993.server/conf directory
  cd ~/3993.server/conf
• Edit the httpd.conf file
  pico httpd.conf
• Make the following changes to the httpd.conf file
  • You must change the location of the lock file to /tmp/your-account-name.lock (for example /tmp/~dlette07.lock)
    LockFile /tmp/~dlette07.lock
  • Pick a port number from 1024 to 65535 (for example 65432)
    Port 65432
  • Change the ServerAdmin to your e-mail adddress (for example dlette07@fiu.edu)
    ServerAdmin dlette07@fiu.edu
  • Change the server root to your server directory for example /home/mongoose2/users/dlette07/3993.server)
    ServerRoot  /home/mongoose2/users/dlette07/3993.server
  • Change the server name to mongoose.aul.fiu.edu
    ServerName mongoose.aul.fiu.edu
  • Set the spare server pool
    MinSpareServers 1
MaxSpareServers 1
StartServers 1
  • Comment out or remove any Virtual Hosts. The virtual host directives start with <VirtualHost> and end with </VirtualHost>. Remove or comment out these lines and all lines between them.
• Edit the srm.conf file
  pico srm.conf
• Make the following changes to the srm.conf file
  • Change the document root to your directory (for example /home/mongoose2/users/dlette07/3993.data)
    DocumentRoot /home/mongoose2/users/dlette07/3993.data
  • Change the user directory to 3993.www
    UserDir 3993.www
  • Change the default home page to 3993.index.html
    DirectoryIndex 3993.html
  • Change the access file name to .3993access
    AccessFileName .3993access
• Edit the access.conf file
  pico access.conf
• Make the following changes to access.conf
  • Change the first <Directory> tag to your document root (for example /home/mongoose2/users/dlette07/3993.data)
    <Directory /home/mongoose2/users/dlette07/3993.data>