Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 19:36:48 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>, "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /usr/local/share/doc/ ? Message-ID: <003801c1c32d$d2841260$1e01a8c0@lc.ca.gov> References: <200203031726.g23HQNH07833@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 9:25 AM Subject: Re: /usr/local/share/doc/ ? > Hi Joe! > > On 3 Mar 02 at 11:51 you wrote: > > > I can access these hmtl files from the FBSD command line by lynx > > /usr/local/share/doc/postfix/basic.hmtl but lynx leaves so much to be > > desired in what it displays that I tried to use one of the lan > > winbox's IE browser > > http://10.100.100.111/usr/local/share/doc/postfix/basic.hmtl and > > comes up not found. I use http://10.100.100.111/ to get to my apache > > server. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > Your Apache server doesn't serve the entire /usr tree out to the world > (and you really don't want it to). > > Try adding 'Alias /postfix-docs /usr/local/share/doc/postfix' to your > httpd.conf and restarting Apache. Then you should be able to access > http://10.100.100.111/postfix-docs/basic.html from your winbox. I put a symlink to /usr/local/share/doc in my apache directory. I don't know the security implications of this but it does work. Apache (or more likely, on of its included mods) creates a index page listing all of the files and directories. Then you can just browse and read whatever docs you want. HTH, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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