[linux-help] location od virtual doamin accounts directories

[Xjuzr@xxxxxxx]

Hello Everyone,
My name is Mike and I live in Des Moines, Iowa and I have been crash coursing 
into the realm of LINUX for the last couple of months. Which, I must say is 
highly interesting!
 
The winds of fate have forced me into the position of needing to learn how to 
set up, administer and run a LINUX web server. Over the last couple of months 
I have gotten quite a few general and in-depth books on the LINUX 7.2 
version. I cap that off with constant Internet searches for more specific 
information on whatever step I am working on.
 
The ultimate goal is to have a virtual web hosting service type machine.
 
I should, at this point, lie out what I've done so far.
The test machine is outside my network with its own IP. (I will only have one 
IP for this machine)
1.) Installed RedHat 7.2 (Hopefully with all the options I need for this test 
machine)
2.) Set Up two regular users accounts.
3.) Installed Webmin
4.) Purchased 2 domain names from a registrar that allows me to set IP and MX 
records
      mydomain.comâ?¦.www.mydomain.comâ?¦.mail.mydomain.comâ?¦.-->machine IP
      mydomain.netâ?¦.www.mydomain.netâ?¦.mail.mydomain.netâ?¦.-->machineIP
               alpha.mydomain.com is the test computer name
5.) Configured Send Mail so I can send locally and set up pop3 accounts 
outside the machine. (This was a considerable hair puller for me!!)
6.) Configure and run Apache to run for the main domain name.
      In the references I have there is an item by item explanation of the 
configure steps in httpd.conf (some I can grasp, some I will have to grasp 
later)
   Currently this works and resolves to the Apache test page when access via 
the Internet and the links from that document works (Although, even after 
enabling CGI in the httpd.conf, a simple CGI will not execute from the 
default HTML directory) Maybe this is not important at this point, as I read 
it is safer not to serve any pages from this main directory, it seems a waste 
of a domain name though?
7.) Set up and configure the second domain name as a virtual account.
 
My current stymie is I am not clear as to where to physically create the 
directories needed for the virtual account(s). The default install of LINUX 
partitioned a 15 gig hard drive to have about 10 gigs in the  /var directory 
and about 3 gigs in the /home directory.
I have in the httpd.conf    
 
Document Root â??/var/www/htmlâ??
 
<Directory />
    OptionsFollowSymLinks
    AllowOverrideNone
</Directory>
 
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>
What I am accustomed to seeing when I enter a hosting space on commercial 
host servers is a path like  /home/username/public_html which is what I would 
like to have on my test machine but not necessary have to since it appears to 
me that the virtual domain users accounts have to be in the /var/www/html.
 
So my question should the path to the virtual accounts 
be/var/www/html/home/username/public_html
Or what is the correct path? Or the proper path?
 
I want to thank anyone who can offer input in advance, as I feel that I am 
splashing feebly in a very large ocean and land is very far away.
Best Regards,
 Mike

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