Apache not configured right
 

Hi,

I've recently installed Debian but my Apache web server doesn't seem to be configured right. When I type it loads the index.html page, but if I try to look in any sub-directories it doesn't find the index.html file unless I explicitly call it, Anyone know why?

Also I've tried the same with a php file and this fails to load from sub-dirs. When I try it fails to load and when I looked in the error_log it's say it can't find , Note the missing subdir! So in this case it seem to me looking for the index.php file in the root dir not the subdir .... very strange :(

Thanks for any help to resolve this :)

Chris

1. Is php installed?
2. Have you edited httpd.conf to allow for php to be parsed BEFORE .html? This will be

# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi
</IfModule>

WHERE you stick index.php before index.html

3. What happens if you place a test.txt file in one of the /var/www/subdirs (or whatever your DocumentRoot is) and you explicitly call it?

Hi Thanks for the reply. :)

Php is installed and 'index.php' appears first in the DirectoryIndex list as you've shown.

It displays the cotent of the file.

Thanks

Chris

Have you restarted apache after you edited DirectoryIndex?

apachectl configtest

apachectl restart

HTH

Yes I did all that :)

PHP & htmlpages work if you explicitly call them, for an example of whats wrong go to;

81.174.166.225/stats

It comes bak saying The page can't be displayed,
Then go to

http://81.174.166.225/stats/index.html

And the page displays ok! :(

Thanks

Chris

[edit]

Sorry double post :(