How can I make a public HTML folder in Ubuntu?

Question

Simple question, but for some reason I couldn\'t find the exact answer on Google:

I have a fresh Ubuntu install on Slicehost, and would like to make a public directory i

Answer 1

You need to use mod_userdir for Apache, otherwise you need to set up symlinks from /var/www/ or wherever.

Your permissions issue is because Apache does not have read access to your files. You need to allow read access to www-data (or whatever the user is; distro-specific).