Apache2 - how to get rid of apache2-default

ozymandias · 11-26-2006, 02:53 PM

Ok, finally I've got my Apache2 up and runnning, and working with some cgi scripts i downloaded!

But... My problem is that if I type htttp://192.168.0.1/index.html all works well & I see my page...

However, if i type http://192.168.0.1 I get an error message that 'http://192.168.0.1/apache2-default is not available on this server

As I didn't ask for it, I'm assuming that the apache2-default is specified (by default!) in some config file, but I cant find it in
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf

How do I set the default to my index.html page ?

Sadly I found the Apache2 site pretty useless for help for real beginners like me.

P.s my httpd.conf is blank

Regards,

Oz.

ozymandias · 11-26-2006, 03:12 PM

Sorry, should have said...

I have:

<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

already in my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf ...which I had thought should sort it out after restarting, but no.

friskydrifter · 11-30-2006, 07:46 PM

Hmm not sure what you are running but on my centos distro the default page pointed to in:

/etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf.

It has this inside:

<LocationMatch "^/+$">
Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html
</LocationMatch>

noindex.html is in :

/var/www/error

Does this help you? Im not guru on apache, in fack im just about to ask how I make squirrelmail the default page.

Edit - After checking I dont have a apache2.conf after google I saw this. It might help you?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Apache2

ozymandias · 12-01-2006, 03:42 AM

Thanks - In Apache2 I finally got it working by changing /etc/apache2/sites-available/default thusly:

lines 15-17

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

Oz

rwreed · 09-12-2008, 10:27 AM

My sites-available didn't have the redirectmatch line so this solution didn't work for me. Instead I got the solution from here
http://www.aequitas-systems.co.uk/jo...acheandphp.php

which recommends adding the following lines to httpd.conf (located in /etc/apache2)

Quote:

once complete and everything is ok, there is only two last things to do before we test to see if PHP is working with apache.

change directory to /etc/apache2

next open the 'HTTPD.conf' file usong Nano or a similar editor locate the section were the 'AddType' mime types are added and add the following to the config file.

AddType application/x-httpd-php php

Then add the following to allow apache to now what file to open as its index to do this you need to add an index.php to the DirectoryIndex in the HTTP.conf file as shown below

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php

all thats left to be done is to restart apache