Hi guys
I installed Apache2.2, and PHP5 on my debian.
When I do [url]http://localhost,I get "It works! This is the default web page for this server. but when I type http://localhost/var/www/index.html, I get an error saying "The requested URL was not found on this server".
when i change index.html to index.php,i get the same error 404.and the/var/www is the document root.
add:
I added the LoadModule and AddType myself after installing Apache,and i restart it,i also put index.html and index.php in the same directory.it's so weird.

This problem is really confusing... thanks to all helpers.

Welcome to LQ great_wall!

1. If the file index.php resides in the document root of your server (probably /var/www) there should be no 404 error. Is there a file /var/www/index.php?
2. Did you install php module? The LoadModule directive can only load available modules. If you install php modules with apt-get then the appropiate changes in the apache conf are made automatically.

Firstly,i'm sorry for my question,there's something wrong.I have corrected it.
yes,there is.and i have installed php modules with "make",instead of apt-get.

http://localhost/var/www/index.html won't work because the server is configured to have a root directory, that is /var/www/ in Debian. So when you try to access that path it is actually looking for /var/www/var/www/index.html because you are adding directories to the path that are extraneous. If you want to access is via a full path try file:///var/www/index.html but if you do that you aren't accessing the file through Apache you will be accessing it directly by the file system.

If you check /var/www you should find the default index.html file that responds with "It works!" placed there by Apache.

Thanks a lot.I have another question,when i type http;//localhost/test,i get the same error.And the test is a directory under the /var/www ,why is it?

Three possibilities I can think of right away. 1)Is there an index file in the test directory? 2)What are the system file permissions on the directory, it will have to at least be read for everybody. 3)If there is no index file in the directory is Apache configured to provide a directory listing? That is often disabled for greater security.

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