apache test page is hideing

hotrodowner · 05-28-2003, 07:21 AM

I installed apache webserver at install time for my red hat 8.0 server. I configured apache correctly to just respond to my outside ip address <not 127.0.0.1>. However, I went to copy my webpage to the /var/www/html/ directory, and there were only more directories in it <such as manual, etc.> but no index.html. I tried copying my web page to it anyways, named it index.html, and it still wont come up by default, I have to physically type "http://<ip address>/index.html to have it come up. If I just type the ip address, it comes up with the test page. I have the document root set to /var/www/html, and the default home page set to index.html. I tried searching for any other files named index.html on the computer, but could not find the test page. Does anyone know how to fix this besides reinstalling the whole computer, I tried to rpm out the httpd, then put it back, but to no avale

jharris · 05-28-2003, 07:43 AM

What does your DirectoryIndex line hold in httpd.conf? It sounds all a bit weird to me like it might be an problem in your apache config. Post a copy of httpd.conf if possible. Also can you lookup and reverse lookup your name/ipaddress - and does this correspond to the ServerName value that you have set in httpd.conf?

cheers

Jamie...

hotrodowner · 05-28-2003, 08:12 AM

in httpd.conf it had:

DirectoryIndex

and that was it. so I just added:

DirectoryIndex "index.html"

and it works! how come on some installations, it had thatline correct, but on this, the default was nothing? Well, thanks for the help!!

jharris · 05-28-2003, 08:59 AM

Glad you got it working. I've never seen an Apache that didn't have "index.html" by default.

cheers

Jamie...

hotrodowner · 05-28-2003, 03:26 PM

All I got to do now is compile my kernel with acpi support so it will cut off instead of saying "power down"

jgilels · 06-29-2003, 12:49 PM

I had exactly the same problem with Apache 2.0.40. When using the graphical interface to reconfigure httpd, it wipes out all manually-configured everything and starts over, if you're not careful. Well, I wasn't careful, and couldn't figure out for the life of me what the heck happened. Thanks so much for the simple solution. Whew! Back in bidnith.

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Originally posted by hotrodowner
in httpd.conf it had:

DirectoryIndex

and that was it. so I just added:

DirectoryIndex "index.html"

and it works! how come on some installations, it had thatline correct, but on this, the default was nothing? Well, thanks for the help!!

hotrodowner · 06-30-2003, 02:36 PM

Thats what group forums are for!!!