[TriLUG] what is this stuff?

jason watts jsnthegod at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 15 16:04:49 EDT 2006


its centos 4 i belive


>From: Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com>
>Reply-To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
>To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] what is this stuff?
>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:42:46 -0400
>
>What flavor of Linux are you running? Many distros put things in slightly 
>different places.
>
>Dave
>
>jason watts wrote:
>>ok, paying attention to the book i am reading, php and mysql
>>
>>it has me setting up my enviornment installing mysql, php and appache 2
>>
>>appache 2 and php is there from my former workings on the computer, or the 
>>original install
>>
>>the book said appache should be in ./usr/local/apache2
>>also says if i had mysql installed, it would be in the same place, 
>>../usr/local/mysql
>>
>>it also says that the root directory for apache is in 
>>/usr/local/apache2/htdocs
>>
>>on my system, the root directory for apache is in /var/www/html
>>
>>and as far as for apache, i ran find . -name httpd and came up with 
>>several things
>>
>>[root at localhost /]# find . -name httpd
>>../etc/sysconfig/httpd
>>../etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
>>../etc/logrotate.d/httpd
>>../etc/httpd
>>../usr/lib/httpd
>>../usr/sbin/httpd
>>../var/lock/subsys/httpd
>>../var/log/httpd
>>
>>
>>my question is, which of these is the directory i need?
>>
>>what do these and some of the other ones not listed usually used for? (eg, 
>>what is var usr etc dev lib proc srv )
>>
>>and, where is it recomended to install my apache and mysql too?
>>
>>sorry for all the questions of late, just trying to acutally make my 
>>computers do things now
>>
>>jsn
>>
>>
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