I have configured httpd on my RH7.3 Linux box, but whenever i try to check the URL "http://192.168.210.148/" of my server, the error says "Page can not be found".

Here's the httpd.conf settings

Servername 192.168.210.148
Documentroot /var/www/html

- under html directory i have an index.html file w/ 755 permission

tried executing "apachectl configtest" to check syntax of httpd.conf and resulted "Syntax OK"

service httpd restart - resulted OK

I don't know where to look now and I hope you could help me.

Thanks,
Lee

Try looking at the apache logs. I think on redhat these are found in the /var/log/httpd directory (from memory).

Make sure that the directory /var/www/html is read and executable by the user that apache is running as. You can check in your httpd.conf file whether apache is set up to switch to a non-privileged user after startup.

The index.html file just needs to be readable by the user that apache is running as (which it will be if the perms are 755, but you might want to tighten up the perms later).

Thanks bah for your response!

Here's the messages on the error_log: Nothing on the rest of the files.

[Tue Oct 15 17:34:23 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.7 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.26 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Oct 15 17:34:23 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Tue Oct 15 17:34:23 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)

/var/www/html - is read and executable with "root"

How do I do this? "Check in your httpd.conf file whether apache is set up to switch to a non-privileged user after startup"

i got the "user" settings. i created a user
User <username>

I'll check the website tomorrow. Thanks!

OK, You should be seeing access messages in your access_log file... messages like the following:

127.0.0.1 - - [01/Jul/2002:10:04:05 +1000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 404 281

If you don't see these messages, it might mean that your attempt to connect from your browser to IP 192.168.210.148 isn't going to where you think it is going. Try firing up a browser on the server itself (if you aren't running X, then maybe use lynx, links or even wget). See if you can see a web page if you direct your browser to http://127.0.0.1/