First off, let me apologize on behalf of my ignorance here - I'm relatively new to Linux, and always try to find answers to my questions before asking someone else.

With that being said, I have a really stupid question. I've been running Debian (Sarge) for a couple weeks now, and I absolutely love it. (After trying pretty much every well-known distribution, I think I'll stop with Debian.)

With the default installation of Apache, it automatically redirects whomever is trying to access the server to /var/www/apache2-default/ (and shows it in the address bar of the browser). Is there any way to either preclude it from showing /apache2-default/ in the browser; or, to change the directory from /var/www/apache2-default/ to something else?

I apologize if this was posted in the wrong forum - I assumed that this was specific to Debian. Also, could anyone point me in the direction of some step-by-step instructions on configuring user directories (other than on Apache's site)? Thanks in advance!

zoso, do you mean that pointing your browser to http://{yourhost} automatically loads http://{yourhost}/apache2-default/ ?

In your httpd2.conf file (possibly in /etc/httpd/conf/), what is your DocumentRoot directive set to?

Thanks for the reply. Yes, that's what it points to; I'm sorry that wasn't clear. It wouldn't let me post a complete URL because I had not yet made 5 posts in the forums. As for the document root, it just wasn't in the configuration file, which is what confused me.

About half an hour ago, I got frustrated and just reinstalled Apache from scratch instead of using apt, and everything's fine now. Thanks again for the help.