Okay, technically this isn't a Linux question, but I have the server "running" on a Slackware 9.1 box. 24-hours ago it was serving up pages, ugly as they were, just fine. I started working on the pages, cp'd them to my server public share, mv'd them to the html docs directory and then, for some reason or another, it was late at night, I deleted the contents of the directory. Then I realized that I had, during a braindead moment, also mv'd my httpd-2.0.xxx files and directories into that same directory. Why is something I may never figure out. How to fix it is why I'm here.

I have downloaded and reinstalled Apache. Apparently, it's running. I can get to the www.myserver.com page, if it were only there. But the other, virtual hosted sites will not come up. I get an error indicating that the document could not be found.

I am including my httpd.conf file for any of you gurus to inspect and tell me where I dropped the ball on my reinstall. The httpd.conf file is pretty much as provided with apache with my virtual hosts added at the end. I have had to cut a lot of the comments out in order to get within the posting limits. I didn't really understand a lot of what's going on from the comments, anyway. If someone would like to give guidance as to what I can/need to take out to improve performance on this, I'd appreciate any lessons I can learn.

thanx in advance.

#
# Based upon the NCSA server configuration files originally by Rob McCool.
#
# This is the main Apache server configuration file.
#
### Section 1: Global Environment
#

#
# ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server's
# configuration, error, and log files are kept.
#
# Do NOT add a slash at the end of the directory path.
#
ServerRoot "/usr/local/apache2"

#
# The accept serialization lock file MUST BE STORED ON A LOCAL DISK.
#
<IfModule !mpm_winnt.c>
<IfModule !mpm_netware.c>
#LockFile logs/accept.lock
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

#
# ScoreBoardFile: File used to store internal server process information.
#
<IfModule !mpm_netware.c>
<IfModule !perchild.c>
#ScoreBoardFile logs/apache_runtime_status
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mpm_netware.c>
PidFile logs/httpd.pid
</IfModule>

Timeout 600

KeepAlive Off

MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

KeepAliveTimeout 15

##
## Server-Pool Size Regulation (MPM specific)
##

# prefork MPM
<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

# worker MPM
<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers 2
MaxClients 150
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

# perchild MPM
<IfModule perchild.c>
NumServers 5
StartThreads 5
MinSpareThreads 5
MaxSpareThreads 10
MaxThreadsPerChild 20
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

# WinNT MPM
<IfModule mpm_winnt.c>
ThreadsPerChild 250
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

# BeOS MPM
<IfModule beos.c>
StartThreads 10
MaxClients 50
MaxRequestsPerThread 10000
</IfModule>

# NetWare MPM
<IfModule mpm_netware.c>
ThreadStackSize 65536
StartThreads 250
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 250
MaxThreads 1000
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
MaxMemFree 100
</IfModule>

# OS/2 MPM
<IfModule mpmt_os2.c>
StartServers 2
MinSpareThreads 5
MaxSpareThreads 10
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

Listen 80

### Section 2: 'Main' server configuration
#
# The directives in this section set up the values used by the 'main'
# server, which responds to any requests that aren't handled by a
# <VirtualHost> definition. These values also provide defaults for
# any <VirtualHost> containers you may define later in the file.

<IfModule !mpm_winnt.c>
<IfModule !mpm_netware.c>
#
# If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
# httpd as root initially and it will switch.
#

User gary
Group #100
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

#
# ServerAdmin: Your address, where problems with the server should be
# e-mailed. This address appears on some server-generated pages, such
# as error documents. e.g. admin@your-domain.com
#
ServerAdmin gdv@xxxxxxx.net

ServerName 192.168.128.15:80

UseCanonicalName Off

DocumentRoot "/home/www"

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory "/home/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

UserDir public_html

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm

AccessFileName .htaccess

<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

TypesConfig conf/mime.types

DefaultType text/plain

<IfModule mod_mime_magic.c>
MIMEMagicFile conf/magic
</IfModule>

HostnameLookups Off

ErrorLog /var/log/apache/error_log

LogLevel debug

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

CustomLog /var/log/apache/access_log common

ServerTokens Prod

ServerSignature On

Alias /icons/ "/home/icons/"
Alias /images/ "/home/images/"
Alias /css/ "/home/css/"
Alias /script/ "/home/script/"

<Directory "/usr/local/apache2/icons">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

AliasMatch ^/manual(?:/(?:de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|ru))?(/.*)?$ "/usr/local/apache2/manual$1"

<Directory "/usr/local/apache2/manual">
Options Indexes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

<Files *.html>
SetHandler type-map
</Files>

SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/de/ prefer-language=de
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/en/ prefer-language=en
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/es/ prefer-language=es
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/fr/ prefer-language=fr
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/ja/ prefer-language=ja
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/ko/ prefer-language=ko
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/ru/ prefer-language=ru
RedirectMatch 301 ^/manual(?:/(de|en|es|fr|ja|ko|ru)){2,}(/.*)?$ /manual/$1$2
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/"

<IfModule mod_cgid.c>
</IfModule>

<Directory "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort

AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip

AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*
AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*
AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*
AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*

AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe
AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx
AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar
AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv
AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip
AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps
AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf
AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt
AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c
AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py
AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for
AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi
AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu
AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl
AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex
AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core

AddIcon /icons/back.gif ..
AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README
AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^
AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^

DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif

ReadmeName README.html
HeaderName HEADER.html

IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t

AddLanguage ca .ca
AddLanguage cs .cz .cs
AddLanguage da .dk
AddLanguage de .de
AddLanguage el .el
AddLanguage en .en
AddLanguage eo .eo
AddLanguage es .es
AddLanguage et .et
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddLanguage he .he
AddLanguage hr .hr
AddLanguage it .it
AddLanguage ja .ja
AddLanguage ko .ko
AddLanguage ltz .ltz
AddLanguage nl .nl
AddLanguage nn .nn
AddLanguage no .no
AddLanguage pl .po
AddLanguage pt .pt
AddLanguage pt-BR .pt-br
AddLanguage ru .ru
AddLanguage sv .sv
AddLanguage zh-CN .zh-cn
AddLanguage zh-TW .zh-tw

LanguagePriority en ca cs da de el eo es et fr he hr it ja ko ltz nl nn no pl pt pt-BR ru sv zh-CN zh-TW

ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback

AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1

AddCharset ISO-8859-1 .iso8859-1 .latin1
AddCharset ISO-8859-2 .iso8859-2 .latin2 .cen
AddCharset ISO-8859-3 .iso8859-3 .latin3
AddCharset ISO-8859-4 .iso8859-4 .latin4
AddCharset ISO-8859-5 .iso8859-5 .latin5 .cyr .iso-ru
AddCharset ISO-8859-6 .iso8859-6 .latin6 .arb
AddCharset ISO-8859-7 .iso8859-7 .latin7 .grk
AddCharset ISO-8859-8 .iso8859-8 .latin8 .heb
AddCharset ISO-8859-9 .iso8859-9 .latin9 .trk
AddCharset ISO-2022-JP .iso2022-jp .jis
AddCharset ISO-2022-KR .iso2022-kr .kis
AddCharset ISO-2022-CN .iso2022-cn .cis
AddCharset Big5 .Big5 .big5
# For russian, more than one charset is used (depends on client, mostly):
AddCharset WINDOWS-1251 .cp-1251 .win-1251
AddCharset CP866 .cp866
AddCharset KOI8-r .koi8-r .koi8-ru
AddCharset KOI8-ru .koi8-uk .ua
AddCharset ISO-10646-UCS-2 .ucs2
AddCharset ISO-10646-UCS-4 .ucs4
AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8

AddCharset GB2312 .gb2312 .gb
AddCharset utf-7 .utf7
AddCharset utf-8 .utf8
AddCharset big5 .big5 .b5
AddCharset EUC-TW .euc-tw
AddCharset EUC-JP .euc-jp
AddCharset EUC-KR .euc-kr
AddCharset shift_jis .sjis

AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz

AddHandler type-map var

BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0

BrowserMatch "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDrive" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDAVFS/1.[012]" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^gnome-vfs" redirect-carefully

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
Include conf/ssl.conf
</IfModule>


### Section 3: Virtual Hosts
#
# VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.

#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin gdv@tranquility.net
DocumentRoot /home/www/
ServerName www.intelli-tek.us
ErrorLog /var/log/apache/error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache/intelli-tek_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin gdv@tranquility.net
DocumentRoot /home/mmtic/
ServerName lyme.intelli-tek.us
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin gdv@tranquility.net
DocumentRoot /home/mmtic/
ServerName mmtic.intelli-tek.us
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin gdv@tranquility.net
DocumentRoot /home/gary/
ServerName gdv.intelli-tek.us
</VirtualHost>

# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
#<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>

I seem to be getting forbidden messages as if apache can't read the files. You have apache running with slightly odd permissions:
User gary
Group #100

Does this user have read access to files and read/execute access to directories?

Thanks for the rapid response, david.

Initially, as in when you tried, no. the folder and files belonged to root in the root group. I have chown'd to gary and chgrp'd to users the mmtic folder, which is the one I currently have html docs in. I don't know if this will help you help me, but I still get a message stating mmtic.intelli-tek.us can not be found.

I get the error that mmtic.intelli-tek.us can't be found too but that is not an apache problem it is a dns problem. If I look up the domain there is no ip address returned:

rossy - trigger - Sat Nov 20 21:51:03
~> dig mmtic.intelli-tek.us +short
rossy - trigger - Sat Nov 20 21:52:02
~>

Cool. At least now I can rest easy that it's not my server. The original site lyme.intelli-tek.us is serving up just fine (from that same directory on the server) so now I have to figure out why mmtic.intelli-tek.us isn't working. Do I need to talk with my friendly DNS server guru to get that added? I don't recall having to do that for the other site name, but it's been a few months and that was my first effort at setting up (1) a web server and (2) virtual hosts on a web server. My second effort isn't going as smoothly.

Yes, you will need to contact the people who manage your DNS and ask for an A record to be setup for that domain pointing to your IP address.

Thanx for the help.

I know this is a little delayed, but all I had to do was talk with the DNS admin and get an entry for mmtic.intelli-tek.us and wait about five minutes.

Now, to see if I can keep from crashing the server whilest I learn about Apache admin and all the joy involved in that.