Web Server Directory

carlosinfl · 01-09-2008, 06:12 PM

I just built a new Debian Etch web server running Apache2 and it works fine however when I access the IP address of the web server, it re-directs the path to http://192.168.3.100/apache2-default/ so my question is how can I delete this option? I simply have one index.htm file and that is in /var/www/html. Can I simply delete that directory? I don't want the apache2-default dir.

norobro · 01-10-2008, 09:54 PM

In the file:

Quote:

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Change:

Code:

RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/

To:

Code:

RedirectMatch ^/$ /html/

Mike_W · 01-12-2008, 03:47 AM

The above will work, but it will still redirect / to /html/

To just have / point to /var/www/html, comment out RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/ with a hash at the start of the line, and change the DocumentRoot and Directory to /var/www/html.

carlosinfl · 01-12-2008, 09:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike_W

The above will work, but it will still redirect / to /html/

To just have / point to /var/www/html, comment out RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/ with a hash at the start of the line, and change the DocumentRoot and Directory to /var/www/html.

Yup - discovered that out the hard way but thanks all for pointing me to the correct place. I don't know why Debian does that strange directory path...

Thanks all!