UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I know this is very newbie ... but I need help determining the proper file path to file...Have no idea how to do this

I'm on a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

thanks very much

if you dont know where the file is at all, you can do

Code:

sudo find / -name "filename"

You would do sudo to make sure all directories are traversed. You have to be an admin to be part of the sudoers group, for sudo to work, otherwise you would have to have an admin log in and edit the /etc/sudoers file to add you or add you to the admin group. If you know the file is somewhere under /Library, then use that instead of just "/". Find is a pretty slow command in my opinion, and you want to narrow the search down if you can. If you want to know your current path you could do pwd (print working directory).

if I have a file installed in the root of a website domain - Example Web Page - what would the typical unix path be? I'm just trying to get a forum up and running and they are asking for this: // Unix path to the forum directory. Do not include a trailing slash - the file is within a folder called "forum" - don't know why this is so difficult, but I guess it is...thanks again

I think it is usually /var/www/html

Hello,

Document root on OSX is as follows:

From the httpd.conf file located at:

Code:

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Code:

# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents/"

HTH,

Abacus