#CHANGE DEFAULT FILE LOCATION UBUNTU HOW TO#
#CHANGE DEFAULT FILE LOCATION UBUNTU INSTALL#

Step 1: By using command вЂњ/usr/bin/select-editorвЂќ you can also change the default editor. crontab Another method of changing the default editor Now check it, open the crontab with command вЂњcrontab -eвЂќ you will see it is now vim editor opened crontab file. To save and exit, press ESC type :wq and hit enter selected_editor with your favorite editor and paste the absolute path of vim in SELECTED_EDITOR then save and exit. Here I am using which command which which command I got the absolute path of vim i.e /usr/bin/vim rw-r-r- 1 root root 66 Jul 1 21:28 3: We will edit this file but before this I should know the absolute path of my editor, for this I will use which or whereis command. selected_editor ,which is hidden ls -la ~/.selected_editor Step 2 : When you have already set the default editor for crontab ,it will create a file in home directory of user with the name so called. Now I will change the editor and set it to vim editor.

#CHANGE DEFAULT FILE LOCATION UBUNTU HOW TO#

Now by this method the default editor is set to nano editor Now how to change default editor of crontabДЄs you have seen with above step I have set default editor with nano editor for crontab. Step 1 : Use the command crontab -e and type 2 for nano and hit enter key, as shown in below given screenshot crontabДЄfter selecting option 2 for nano, now you will get the screen like given below. I am opening the crontab first time and will select nano editor. This is first time when you open crontab ,follow the given below steps I usually work with vi or vim hence in last step I will show two methods to change the default editor for crontab. In this tutorial we will see how to set default editor of crontab as well as how to change it to other default editor. When you first time open the crontab with command crontab -e it will ask you to set the default editor. I have copied the index.html page from the /var/file in the new document root directory and see the result in the browser.Change default editor of crontab in Ubuntu

To access it you can open localhost or 127.0.0.1 in your browser. You are now ready to use your new document root directory. Run the following command in the terminal. Where, username is the current user name. Open it using vim or nano and find the following line. Step #4: Making changes in the nf fileД¬d into the /etc/apache2/sites-available directory and you will find the nf file. If you are using vim then type ESC key and then type :wq and it will save the changes and will exit. Now scroll to the following section in the file.Д¬hange the Directory to /home/username/So, after the change you will get the following. Open this file using vim by running the following command. It helps when you want to revert back :-) Suggestion: Create a backup copy when making changes to configuration files. Now, cd into /etc/apache2 directory and you will find the nf file. To know the current user name run the following command in the terminal whoami. Where, username is your current logged in user name. So, the path of the new document root directory will look like the following. You can name your document root directory whatever you want and place it wherever you want as long as you have the permission to access and modify in that location. So, type the cd command to go inside the current user home directory.

In this tutorial we will create a new directory www inside the current user directory. Step #2: Create new document root directoryД«y default the document root directory is /var/www/html. Note! In the above command we are using sudo so, you will be asked to enter your password. Open Terminal and run the following command to stop Apache server.

#CHANGE DEFAULT FILE LOCATION UBUNTU INSTALL#

It is assumed that you have Apache installed on your Ubuntu computer.ДЇeel free to check out How to install LAMP stack on Ubuntu tutorial if you want to install Apache MySQL and Php on Ubuntu. This will work for Ubuntu 16 and newer versions like 18.04 LTS. In this tutorial we will learn to change document root of Apache on Ubuntu.

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