Re: cannot get my home page from o/s world
On Friday 25 Nov 2005 23:35, Joe Mc Cool wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 06:55:31PM +0000, TreeBoy wrote:
> > * mydomain.demon.co.uk
> > * www.mydomain.demon.co.uk
> >
> > The latter is on their web servers and the former is your ADSL end point.
>
> Yes, makes sense.
>
> > The reason you are not seeing an repalced index file may be because you
> > are using Apache 2. If this is the case, then you want to replace the
> > index file in /var/www/apache2-default or set up you own default instead.
>
> Server version: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux)
> Server built: Sep 6 2005 13:10:30
>
> I have tried putting my index.html file in /var/www /var/www/default and
> /var/www/apache2-default
>
> Same result.
>
> I assume that owner and group for these files has to be www-data ?
>
> Where is my apache getting the default page from ? I cannot find any
> likely index.html file !
>
> > Hope this helps,
>
> Thanks a lot for all the help.
>
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> Joe Mc Cool CEng, SMIEEE
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OK.
The root for your server should be specified in your config
file /etc/apache/httpd.conf By default this is /var/www
There should also be a matching <Directory> entry for this directory that
specifies that indexes are allowed and what file.
Later in the file you should find a <DirectoryIndex> entry that specifies what
file names are used for indexes and what order they are sought.
The file does not need to be owned by www-data, but they must be readable by
that user.
If these appear to be OK, then I suggest searching for the relevant text in
the files in /var/www
(Hopefully not teaching you to suck eggs:) You do this quickly by issuing the
following command.
grep -rl "Text I see in my Web Page." /var/www/*
or you can do it case-insensitively:
grep -ril "Text I see in my Web Page." /var/www/*
The "r" means recursively and the "l" (ell) means only show me the filenames
of the matching files - do not show me the individual lines.
If this doesn't help, then we may have to look at what hosts (virtual and
otherwise) you may have configured.
Keep on trying....
Cheers,
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