IT 202 - Web and Multimedia Technology

Fall 2007

Lab 6

The lab for this week has a few parts.

1. Set up a Static IP Address on your machine and network it to other machines in the lab. There are yellow slips with IP addressed in the lab. Use these slips to get a unique address for your machine. THe addresses start with 192.168.1.X, where the X changes to give everyone a unique number.

   For some ideas on how to do this check out:

   • http://www.ubuntugeek.com/change-ubuntu-system-from-dhcp-to-a-static-ip-address.html
   • http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/change-ubuntu-server-from-dhcp-to-a-static-ip-address/
     Note: ignore the step about modifying resolv.conf for the DNS.

   Note: the spacing on the 5 lines after the "iface" line in the interfaces file appears to be significant. I used about 6 space characters and that worked. Others had troubled if no spaced were used (as the first article/link shows) or if a tab was used.

2. Use the ALIAS directive to set up a web page (or a web directory) that is not under the directory space indicated by DocumentRoot.

   For an idea on how to do this, check out:

   • http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/urlmapping.html
   • http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_alias.html

3. Set up a symbolic link to set up a web page (or a web directory) that is not under the directory space indicated by DocumentRoot.

   For an idea on how to do this, check out:

   • http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#options
   • http://www.tdl.com/~netex/linux-doc-project/install-guide/node131.html
   • http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/#toc18

This lab assignment is to done in the lab in SEL 2264.