setup a webhost

[eeeboy]

I have a remote host with Redhat Linux Fedora Core 4. In that host , I have an account (say under user : tom). Now , when I logged in using ssh client , default directory is /home/tom. Under that location , I have a folder public_html. I placed a index.html there. Now when I type http://myboxip/tom , it returns a 404 Not Found . Point to be noted I have http installed and running. Infact , If i just put http://myboxip , it shows the apache test page.

What is wrong and what I have to do .

regards
eeeboy

[Will.Spencer]

It's an issue with paths and how Apache is configured.

• Find your httpd.conf file with the command `find / -name httpd.conf -print`
• Edit your httpd.conf file
• Look for the line where "DocumentRoot" is defined
• Put your HTML documents in the folder documented on that line