Copy Files

~ is an abbreviation for $HOME - the home directory of the user you are currently logged in as.

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vi (or emacs or joe or any other text editor), provided you know HTML.

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There's another command you need to know: pwd This tells you which directory you're in:

- in root it will show /root - which is root's home directory

- "cd ~/home" should fail unless (assuming pi is your home) you have a directory called 'home' in the pi user, i.e. /home/pi/home exists

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Its /home/pi/Desktop/whatever

Users files are all under /home/

Read /etc/passwd to see where home dirs are defined

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Geany is pretty damed good as a basic text editor that 'understands' raw html

Dunno what there is in terms of e.g. dreamweaver type bollocks around

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Just use vi, gedit or even nano (if you must).

Then install the 'tidy' package. Tidy is a program that reports HTML errors and can also tidy up the content of an HTML page. I always write web pages with my usual text editor and then run "tidy -e mypage.html" on them to pick up errors. You may also want the latest version of Elizebeth Castro's "HTML for the World Wide Web" - its a great combination of tutorial and reference and also covers CSS pages.

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On a sunny day (Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:26:32 +0000 (UTC)) it happened Martin Gregorie wrote in :

Also useful is whoami root@raspberrypi:~/compile/pantel/ip_to_country# whoami root

If its any consolation, Apache is one of the most complex programs to configure that you're likely to meet - not surprising when you see the range of stuff it can handle.

By comparison Postfix, bind and PostgreSQL are doddles.

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Or use the shorthand notation of

~user

in this case, ~pi/ == /home/pi

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A good alternative to Apache is nginx, its easier to configure and uses far less resources (memory and threads) on the Raspberry Pi.

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Could I suggest that a copy of "Linux in a Nutshell" might be a good investment?

It assumes knowledge of at least one other OS and consequently is quite terse and is intended as a reference book for people unfamiliar with Linux/UNIX. I, at least, found it useful for initial guidance until I discovered the three built-in information sources in Linux:

- apropos what-i-want-to-know-about # a command for searching manpage # title lines for matches

- man thing # shows the mini-manual for the # 'thing' command or library # function

- look in /usr/share/docs # may be minimal or absent on an RPi

*** I use Redhat Fedora as my everyday OS. It has all three of these info sources available by default, but as the RPi is a small system, with not much RAM and even smaller filespace (8GB SD card on mine), /usr/share may be absent on the RPi. Full disclosure: since I run Linux all day, every day with 500 GB disks, I never bother to look for /usr/share on my RPi, hence I don't know what, if anything, is in /usr/share on an RPi. So shoot me!

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Never tried sendmail then?

Yes...

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I'll pass on the shooting part, since I didn't know, either. But it seems to be mostly empty, tho the directory structure appears to be there, and most of the actual files are copyright notices, the occasional changelog or readme.

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