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Old 01-15-2003, 01:12 PM   #1
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Red Hat Linux 8 Apache index.html file


I have new to Linux.

I have recently installed Red Hat Linux 8, as i want to set a computer as aserver in a university project. the problem is that after i set up the server, the page comin up is the test page. i try to locate the test page in order to delete it and so place my site.

Could some one please help
 
Old 01-15-2003, 01:53 PM   #2
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usually the document root for the website is located in /var/www

depending on your configuration you automatically can share your files in ur home (such as /home/yourusername/public_html/index.php) and it will come up as: http://yoursite/~yourusername/index.php
 
Old 01-15-2003, 02:18 PM   #3
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thanks for your feedback

i have allocated a site in the /var/www/html but i think an index.html is being generated.

My IP is 134.36.16.12
when i put
134.36.16.12/index.html
i get my website, but without writting index.html get the test page

Cheers
 
Old 01-15-2003, 03:10 PM   #4
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The test page is the result of a script. If you want your own content to be served simply place your own index.html into your document root, which by default in RH 8 is /var/www/html
 
Old 01-15-2003, 03:29 PM   #5
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It should work fine, you don't need to disable anything. Check your httpd.conf and make sure that:
Code:
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/"
and also:

Code:
DirectoryIndex index.html
make sure that you have your own index.html located in /var/www/html/ and restart apache if neccesary so it re-reads its config files ie: "apachectl restart"

The file you are seeing is called /var/www/error/noindex.html but I think if you delete it you will get errors. Try to get apache configured properly rather than deleting this file...
 
Old 01-15-2003, 04:13 PM   #6
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right on the dot, there should be a conf file (i think /etc/httpd.conf or /etc/init.d/httpd.conf)

or just find: find / -name httpd.conf

inside your httpd.conf file should be commented / un commented module lines and down below (use your fav editor to search) there should be something that tells what apache goes for in a dir first. if you use php and other things you'll have to add index.php in there also.

btw: fast webserver!

Last edited by kmistry; 01-15-2003 at 04:14 PM.
 
Old 01-15-2003, 04:18 PM   #7
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I have had the same problem with Apache. When I went through the GUI and set up Apache to use index.html as my default file it seemed to have actually DELETED the index.html. What I mean is after applying the changes through the GUI i went into my httpd.conf and found this line

DirectoryIndex

with no index.html after it. I simply added index.html after DirectoryIndex and it worked fine. I think this is just a bug in the Server Configuration GUI.
 
Old 01-15-2003, 04:23 PM   #8
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there should be a conf file (i think /etc/httpd.conf or /etc/init.d/httpd.conf)
In redhat 8 it is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

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I think this is just a bug in the Server Configuration GUI.
I reccomend not using this tool, as it does more harm than good. Everytime you run it it overwrites httpd.conf with a new one, so any adustments you make will be lost...try to edit by hand (you will learn more about apache configuration anyway, which is a good thing... )
 
Old 01-15-2003, 04:23 PM   #9
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thanks i will try this
 
Old 01-15-2003, 04:28 PM   #10
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Yes I agree bulliver. I learned that the hard way. Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and make sure the line says:

DirectoryIndex index.html

This will work I promise. Don't forget to restart Apache after you make the changes.
 
Old 02-11-2003, 11:30 AM   #11
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Ahhh!! I have been tring to figure out this problem for weeks. My config file just had DirtoryIndex it was missing the index.html. I put that in there and it worked fine. Man that is nerve racking. Thanks for posting this!!!!
 
  


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