On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 19:40:24 +0000 "Russell L. Harris" <russ...@rlharris.org> wrote:
> I am attempting to configure Apache2 (in Debian 10) as a local server > for web site development. > > I see on the "Apache2 Debian Default Page" the Debian logo; the > browser reports the image location as: > > http://localhost/icons/openlogo-75.png > > But when I use midnight commander to snoop around \var and other > directories, I find no directory named "localhost". > > The immediate goal of my investigation is to discover the location > (with respect to "var/www" or "public_html") to which essential images > such as web site logos and navigation button icons should be uploaded. > > This investigation is part of my exploration of the "Perl Template > Toolkit". I am proceeding step-by-step through the tutorial presented > in chapter 11 of the O'Reilly "Badger Book", but I do yet understand > why images are not being displayed. > > Localhost isn't a directory. It is the hostname from /etc/hosts. The directory comes from what is configured in /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf Default is /var/www/html So if you do: printf "Found my localhost root directory\n" >> /var/www/html/test.txt You can then navigate to http://localhost/test.txt and you'll see your new message in your browser.
