fc7/apache - cannot access directories only "directory/index.php"
 

Hi,

I am have recently upgraded to FC7, and now, I cannot access any webpage inside my /var/www/html directories unless I specify the index file inside it.

For instance:


mydomain.com/mysite does not work, but if I do:

mydomain.com/mysite/index.php


I checked my /etc/http/conf file and it has a list of the expected index files under the directory index directive:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php3 index.pl

Any ideas, and/or suggestions?

Thanks,

MD.

I had to use this:

Code:

---

#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.htmls index.php index.php3 index.phps \
                  default.htm default.html default.htmls default.php default.php3 default.phps
</IfModule>

---

Hi David,

I tried that... and the problem still remains...:scratch:

Any suggestions ?

One other thing I noticed... If I try to access the pages from the server itself, I do not need to specify the index.php, the directory its is resolved. So it seems that affects only accessing the server from another machines both inside and outside my network.

What does your access log show?

I was having a similar problem. In the top level directory /var/www/ the index html and php filenames were required and it wouldn't display stylesheets, colors or images, but directories below it did.

My discovery was I needed to call /var/www using localhost. Using the address 127.0.0.1 for some reason acted as described before.

76.97.196.144 - - [23/Dec/2007:10:32:11 -0500] "GET /jinzora2 HTTP/1.1" 301 302 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"

76.97.196.144 - - [23/Dec/2007:10:32:44 -0500] "GET /jinzora2/lib/jinzora.js HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://76.97.193.144:8080/jinzora2/index.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"

Hi David, these are two entries from the log, in the first instance I get the failure. On the second one I add index.php to the URL and it goes through.

If you are listening on 8080, you have to use "http://blah:8080/" syntax for all requests. The default port is 80.

Iptables might be the culprit as you are unable to browse from other comps. Check whether iptables is running there?

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Prasanta

Hi Prasanta,

iptables - or any other firewall - is NOT running on that machine.

Do you have virtual hosts setup in your httpd.conf file? From what you said about "127.0.0.1" not getting resolved to localhost, it sounds like something is broken.

What does your "Listen" line in "/etc/httpd/httpd.conf" say?

Just try telneting to the machine in that particular port from a different machine.

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Prasanta

David,

As for the 8080 port, my ISP blocks the port 80 so I use a no-ip port service to the port 8080. Remember, the only issue is that the server does not resolve the index file automatically when I specify the directory. If I specicy the index file in it, the forwarding and the site works perfectly.

Also, in the http.conf file for the Listen directive I have:

Listen *:80
Listen *:1158
Listen *:8080

Thanks for all the help and ideas so far.

--MD.

Thanks for all the help. After some time I was able to figure it out myself.
I had the directive UseCanonicalName set to On, and this was causing Apache to use the value of the Server name to create directives. By setting it to off did the trick.

I guess that was why "127.0.0.1" was not getting resolved properly.