How to use the built in webserver?

[muppets4]

I have located /var/www/html/ and have put a simple site there. The apache server is running and my router redirects port 80 to the HDA.

When I enter my external IP adress in a browser, the Amahi login screen is presented. I've tried to put my site in a subfolder, let's call it 2, but when I do a http://xx.xx.xx.xxx/2/ in my browser, I am still presented with the Amahi login screen.

What folder is the Amahi server using?

Small update: I have logged in at webmin, went to the apache server and created a virtual server on port 90. I've forwarded that port to the HDA and used the /var/www/html folder as root. No succes. Then I tried /svr/www/public_html with port 90 and still no succes.

[bigfoot65]

To use as a web server, you need to create a web app. If you have advanced settings on, you will see the web app link in applications tab.

Put your files in the /var/hda/web-apps/appname where appname is the name you used when creating the web app.

Amahi does not use the /var/www/html directory as most servers do for serving web pages. It used the web-apps directory.

[muppets4]

Ha, it's you and me again! Great. I've created a webapp and it works by clicking the http://website link I've created by doing that. But what is the external adress for the site?

[bigfoot65]

Follow the guidance in the wiki for exposing apps outside the network. Basically you will add:

ServerAlias username.yourhda.com

to your web app .conf file located in /etc/httpd/conf.d directory.

[muppets4]

It worked!

[bigfoot65]

Of course it did LOL

[muppets4]

yeah, great help!

[tomsserver]

Okay, even though 7.1 makes the creation of a web-app a real pain, I got it going and now when I use an external dyndns type address I do indeed see the website. Now, I would like to use joomla or drupal to edit the website at /var/hds/web-apps/website/html. How do I link these tools to the website? Ideally there would be a "publish" type menu item in the joomla or drupal system, but a hard link would also be acceptable. It just seems like drupal and joomla in their present form are pretty much useless.

[bigfoot65]

Same wiki reference to host apps. If you are wanting to put links on your website page, that may be a bit more complicated.

For something of that nature, you may need to search the internet. There should be plenty of guidance on how to do it.