Hello Everyone
I have tried to install apache2 under ubuntu 13.10 and found the following problems
first, aptitude, tasksel and gksu are not installed
simply open up a terminal and write
sudo apt-get install aptitude tasksel
then run tasksel and select lamp Server (Linux, Apache2, Php, Mysql). It’s the easiest way of installing lamp server.
I am not covering All the details of installing them, just the critical steps
Now to change the default directory of Apache2 write in console
gksu gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
It’s the same as sites-available/default under previous versions and add/change the following lines
DocumentRoot /var/www
to
# DocumentRoot /var/www/>
DocumentRoot /path/to/your/site
<Directory /path/to/your/site
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Save & Close the file
Please note that I have used All for AllowOverride, this enables htaccess under apache
Also note that the use of
Require All granted
instead of
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
is a best solution for developer machine where you can have your default directory under any file system (ntfs, fat32) and apache won’t through a 403 forbidden/not accessible error
to further enable some usefull modules of apache/htaccess run the following scripts
# this enables mod rewrite
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/rewrite.load
# this enables mod expires
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/expires.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/
# this enable apache headers
sudo a2enmod headers
after running all of the above commands just restart apache2 using
sudo service apache2 restart
Hopefully, this will save of a lot of times for a lot of people