Hi...

I have a small question -

If I am to set up a Website, then do I have to compulsorily use the VIRTUALHOST directive ?

My assumption is that when there is only one website to be setup, then we need not use the virtualhost directive. Is that right ?

I have created a directory

/var/www/html/192.168.1.18

and in this directory I have the file 'index.html' file.

But when I type in my browser:

http://192.168.1.18
In this case I get the apache test page. However, I should in fact get the output of the file 'index.html' which is not the case.

Also, http://192.168.1.18/index.html
outputs an error page saying 'Object not found'

So I'd like to know If what I am doing is in the right direction or would I have to compulsorily use the 'virtualhost' directive for setting up even a single website ??

Thanx and Regards,

amit

You do not need the VirtualHost directives. It's there for you if you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your machine.

Your httpd.conf probably points to /var/www/html/ as being the DocumentRoot (take a look at your httpd.conf and check the DocumentRoot directive). This directory is where you end up when you enter the following url: http://192.168.1.18

If you create a directory in your DocumentRoot, you need to point your url to that, so in your case that would be something like:

http://192.168.1.18/192.168.1.18

If there is a index.htm or index.html, it should be shown. It also shows that 192.168.1.1 is not the best name for that dir

If there is no index.html in your DocumentRoot it will show that error.

Take a look at the following url(s) for more info:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod...reference.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod...tive-dict.html

Hope this helps.

Cheers druuna!!!..

You are right, when I was typing

http://192.168.1.18

apache was searching http://192.168.1.18/192/192.168.1.18/index.html...

So, I deleted the directory and moved index.html to /var/www/html

Yes, now it works!!!

Thanx a ton once again..

Regards,

amit