NOT FOUND The requested URL was not found on this server.

so You saying

when you browse the server via localhost or Host Ip
everything is fine

but when you browese

http://yourdomain.com

then you dont get any linl
is that right ??

is this windows server or linux server ??

have you checked the error log ??

The domain is the same ? sometimes www.example.com has different content from example.com and the www subdomain could have other directory where it gets the files from. Be sure your links point to the same subdomain on that domain.

when i browse us http://mydomain.com i get to login page and then to homepage. any links in homepage result in the error.

apache 2.0 and php 5

i checked that the paths for both the localhost/directory and the domain name virtual directory are the same

can you post a link to your website ?

i cannot post the link - the site is internal - i have local dns set up for the url.

Can you read the file access.log ? Post few lines after you replicate the behaviour on your website

al3cs12 - thanks for sticking with me. i don't know anything about an access.log and a search of the machine produces none.

what's your OS ?

centos 5

/var/log/httpd/access_log

see the last lines in there and post them here

You could also check the location of access logs in httpd.conf directive
CustomLog /path/here

ah - ok was look for access.log instead of access_log. here are the last few lines:

192.168.1.32 - - [26/Feb/2009:12:43:31 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 10783 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
192.168.1.32 - - [26/Feb/2009:12:43:31 -0500] "GET /logo.jpg HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.fhs-employees.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
192.168.1.32 - - [26/Feb/2009:12:43:31 -0500] "GET /bu8k.jpg HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.fhs-employees.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
192.168.1.32 - - [26/Feb/2009:12:43:33 -0500] "GET /Employee/directoryhome.php HTTP/1.1" 404 310 "http://www.fhs-employees.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"

http://fhs-employees.org/Employee/directoryhome.php or http://www.fhs-employees.org/Employee/directoryhome.php  that gives you 404 not found ?

www

Look in your vhosts configurations where the document root path of the www subdomain is and change it to your wanted path.

yup - spent a lot of time doing that already. i'll go back and do it again. this stuff is often something as insignificant as a misplaced comma. thanks for the help.

The error_log should show you the physical path the request "/Employee/directoryhome.php" was mapped to, i.e., where apache tries to look for Employee/directoryhome.php.

it seems i'm not writing errors to error_log - at least for this particular website as I can see errors for other sites on the same machine. in any case, what i can't figure out is this:
this site works perfectly fine if accessed as follows:
http://localhost/Employee - or from another machine
http://ip-address/Employee

however, when i access this site via url (as in http://website) i get to main.php where i login and it brings me to the homepage.htm. when i click on any link on this page, i get the error NOT FOUND blah,blah.

so it seems its not a matter of finding the site, but the internal navigation changes depending on how i access the site.

Your login file redirects you to www.your-website.com and from there the html automaticaly changes the link to www.your-website.com/otherfile.html so the problem is that you need to find the DocumentRoot for the subdomains and make it to match with the main configuration files, search apache conf files for vhosts and change it. Are you using a control panel to set the subdomains ?

sorry if i've confused matters. the links are not to sub domains - they are pages within the site.

see if this makes sense:
x.x.x.x/Employee brings me to the site and works fine
domain brings me to the site, but navigating within does not work. in httpd.conf i have the virtual host configured to path /var/www/html/Employee. when i log in using domain name and hover over a link it displays http://domain/Employee/pagename.php. since the domain already maps to /Employee in httpd.conf, then isn't http://domain/Employee redundant?

not sure where this leads.

yes change /var/www/html/Employee to /var/www/html/ and it should work after that

actually, i need the path as it is in httpd.conf. otherwise, the browser will not make it to the site. what i am going to do, and just experimented with, is to change the calls in my pages to reduce the path.

thanks much for helping me walk through this - i was completely stuck. i'm rather new to linux - it helps to have more expert input.

this recommendation caused me to more closely scrutinize all of the associated paths. Indeed, there were some paths that needed modification. All works weel now.