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~ 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

Its /home/pi/Desktop/whatever

Users files are all under /home/

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

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

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.

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.

Or use the shorthand notation of

~user

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

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

---druck

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

Never tried sendmail then?

Yes...

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.