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I am going through the David Malan lecture on php. So I have created a simple google.html file on /public_html/google.html

which is as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html>    
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Google</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div style = "text-align: center">
    <h1>Google</h1>
    <form action = "http://www.google.com/search" method = "get">
      <input name = "q" style = "width: 400px" type = "text">
      <br>
      <input type = "submit" value = "Google Search">
      <input type = "submit" value = "I am feeling lucky">
    </form>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

When I tried to open http://localhost/~anupam/google.html, I got the

ERROR 404

Not Found The requested URL /~anupam/google.html was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

Why am I unable to display it through localhost? I am running apache2.

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    is mod_userdir enabled in apache?
    – Jan
    Sep 12, 2014 at 21:44
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    What if you try with http://localhost/google.html ?
    – hytromo
    Sep 12, 2014 at 21:54
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    Also, if you want to go with userdir, you need to put the files in /home/YOUR_LOGIN/public_html/, not in /public_html/.
    – fkraiem
    Sep 12, 2014 at 22:21
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    Have you set up apache to use /public_html? Do you mean /public_html as you have written or is it ~/public_html? What is this lecture you're talking about? What does it suggest you do?
    – terdon
    Sep 13, 2014 at 12:29
  • when I tried toEnable Apache2 Userdir Module in Ubuntu Server,I got the following: anupam@JAZZ:~$ sudo service apache2 restart * Restarting web server apache2 AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message [ OK ] what does this error means??
    – lazarus
    Sep 13, 2014 at 17:47

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Check if mod_userdir is enabled: ls -l /etc/apache2/mods-enabled | grep userdir.

If it isn't, enable it using a2enmod userdir.
After restarting apache, files in /home/<user>/public_html are served.

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