Bug#449109: apache2.2-common: AliasMatch regexen broken if number of path elements differ

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

On Friday 09 November 2007, Simon Raven wrote:
> > > i get that funky /htdocs error from another bug (#317460).
> >
> > That likely means that the DocumentRoot is not defined for the
> > VirtualHost Apache is trying to serve. It could also mean that
> > Apache does not find a VirtualHost for the request (Debian's main
> > server config does not have a DocumentRoot defined).
>
> i tried with and without, both were borked in various ways.

What kind of problems did you have when adding a DocumentRoot?

>
> > > either
> > > way, DirectoryIndex index.foo index.bar ... doesn't "kick in".
> >
> > does /etc/mods-enabled/autoindex.load exist? Try a2enmode
> > autoindex.
>
> sure does, and i even ran a2enmod again to make sure, and cd'ed to
> it, etc. it's enabled.

Just to be sure: 
/etc/mods-enabled/autoindex.conf exists as well and is not empty?


If that's not it, you would have to describe or post your config in 
more detail. It's not possible to determine the problem from the 
information you gave so far.

Cheers,
Stefan