Apache help on raspberry Pi

martyp

Hi all,

I've made a Pi into a webserver which has two projects running acquiring data from both my wifi thermostat and weather station.
I can't figure out how you make a folder visible or accessible on the website.

The data is contained in two folders under \home\pi\

The one available is accessed via:
http://raspberrypi/~pi/heatmiser-wifi
The folder on the Pi is \home\pi\public_html\heatmiser-wifi

The folder I want adding is located at:
\home\pi\webdata

If I go to http://raspberrypi/~pi/
It shows the one folder, heatmiser-wifi

I'm going to use the file \var\www\index.html as the main webpage for the site and link webpages in both the above folders but haven't a clue how I do it? I'm worried that if I move the folders it will upset the scripts etc. which publish the live data to them...

Hoping someone can maybe advise please?

I'm really confused...

RobTang

You need to use mod_alias in your apache config.


http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html


With this you can make the other folder accessible through a url, you can the link to I from wherever

S0litaire

You could do it the quick dirty and lazy way.. ^_~

From the command line type:

ln -s -t /var/www/ /home/pi/webdata

That puts a symbolic link (think of it as a shortcut) from /home/pi/webdata to /var/www/
not sure if you will need super user rights if you do put 'sudo' at the start then enter your password as required.

so when you type in http://raspberrypi/webdata you get the second set of data.


it's not the right way to do things, but it saves a lot of time in a test or home environment, with all the stopping and restarting web services after every change. ^_^

RobTang

S0litaire wrote: »

You could do it the quick dirty and lazy way.. ^_~

From the command line type:

ln -s -t /var/www/ /home/pi/webdata

That puts a symbolic link (think of it as a shortcut) from /home/pi/webdata to /var/www/
not sure if you will need super user rights if you do put 'sudo' at the start then enter your password as required.

so when you type in http://raspberrypi/webdata you get the second set of data.


it's not the right way to do things, but it saves a lot of time in a test or home environment, with all the stopping and restarting web services after every change. ^_^

Dodgy but I like it.


Apache doesn't transparently follow symlinks so if it doesn't work you need to check that option is enabled (option is enabled by default so it should work)

martyp

Excellent, thanks both Great to have the different options too. I'm really pleased I got both my planned projects working together. I want to expand the website capabilities for home automation functions etc as well.