I just installed Apache2 on my server and now want to just add a basic web page.

The default apache directory is under /var/www/apache2-default

Located there is the apache generic index.htm page to show that Apache is working.

I now want to add my own personal index.htm that I created to personalize my web server however when I add my index.htm to /var/www, it still shows the generic one located in the apache2-default directory. I then move my own personal index.htm to the apache2-default dir and it displays my own page now rather than the generic one but the address is now resolved as http://carlwill.dyndns.org/apache2-default/

I want the address to resolve as http://carlwill.dyndns.org/index

I think I need to back my own index.htm file one level to /var/www so the address will display as http://carlwill.dyndns.org/index.

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

What is the DocumentRoot directive set to?

My FC4 apache default dir is /var/www/html and i use hn.org ... the site resolves quite well as ejecta.hn.org with files in the default location w/out haveing to edit the apache cfg file... so I kinda suspect yours will too..

Put your index page in the /var/www/apache2-default directory instead of the /var/www

I don't know how to answer this questions.

My original post tells you that I did add my index page to /var/www/apache2-default which makes the URL path all weird.

The URL then becomes http://carlwill.dyndns.org/apache2-default/ but I want the URL to be http://carlwill.dyndns.org/index

Go to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

You'll see the references to /var/www/apache2-default. Change them to /var/www or whatever you want your DocumentRoot to be.

Then restart apache.

This is what I see:

DocumentRoot /var/www/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
</Directory>

Try placing your index file in /var/www again but use an extension of .html. Apache does not recognize the .htm extension by default as this is a Windows thing. If you want Apache to recognize the .htm extension you need to edit your httpd.conf file and look for the DirectoryIndex directive then add index.htm as the first option before index.html.

Go back to this

# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
</Directory>

and change to this

# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
# RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
</Directory>

make sure you have /var/www/index.html then revisit your browser and try again