Apache 2.2 Config Help

On my Ubuntu system "/var/www" is the Apache web root, not "/var/www/html".

I don't think you need any virtualhost for the moment, if your goal is to host one single web site.
You said you've put your files in /var/www/html. I understand your index.html is /var/www/html/index.html
Or move your files to /var/www, not /var/www/html

If this is correct, you'll access your website with this URL: http://localhost/html/index.html (or http://localhost/html/ which points to the default index.html as well)

(I suppose you're just trying to access html regular files, not php and so on (that might require some further configuration and apache/php packages))

You need to open the httpd.conf file and look the correct folder for the 'DocumentRoot' directive. That's the full path where you need to put your html pages, or you can change it to '/var/www/mywebsite/html'

Another issue could be that your index page is a php page, and if you don't have any php module loaded apache will only search for index.html pages.

hi ycgtech,

On Centos box, there is a file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf

If this file is there on your installation, edit the file, and comment all of the lines, or you could move the file to other location, or just delete it.

Thanks for all of the suggestions.  I will review and then work on it again Saturday night, then I will reply back.

Thanks

Thanks again for comments.  Here are my replies:

@DaveBaldwin: The httpd.conf file lists /var/www/html as document root.

@mchkorg:  I originally did not have the virtual host setup.  I only went to that step when I could not get it working with the default settings.  Currently the web data is in /var/www/html AND /var/www/mywebsitename/html.  I have an index.html in both of those locations.

@Orcen:  The document root is /var/www/html.  This actually is a php website, but I have the php module installed.  But just to take this out of the loop for troubeshooting purposes (this was the first thing that came to my mind), I created a basic index.html for testing purposes.  Even with the html file the page still does not load.

@samri:  I commented out the lines, and then restarted Apache.  Same thing.  The "It Works" page still loads.

Next troubleshooting step?

Thanks!

Which OS or version of Linux are you using?  They don't all set up Apache the same way.

Centos 5

What do you have for "DirectoryIndex"?  I use "index.html index.htm index.php index.shtml".

index.html index.html.var

What do you get with "http://localhost/index.html"?

The "It Works" page.

Let me add to my above post:  I have checked and double-checked the web root location.  It is indeed set to /var/www/html.

Ok, figured it out.  but perhaps you can explain why:  A find for httpd.conf finds multiple files.  The one I was working off of was in /etc/httpd/conf.  There is another one that is in /usr/local/apache2/conf.  Once I edited that one, it worked (well sort of - I have other unrelated issues now that I need to work on).  Why more than one file?

I believe you, Centos sets up Apache different than Ubuntu, I looked it up.  some others use 'htdocs'.  "index.html.var" is a 'map' to other language version of 'index.html'.  If you're not using them, you don't need it.  If you're using PHP, you should have 'index.php' in the "DirectoryIndex" list.

Since you moved your website file to a different location, you should be able to delete all the file in /var/www/html and put in your own 'index.html'.

I just found this... "as of 2.2, there must be a VirtualHost defined that is identical to the default server."

Thanks, points awarded for sticking with me and helping me out until I realized there were mutiple copies.

Thanks again!

Thanks and you're welcome.  I know from experience that Apache can be a real pain to set up.