On 3/24/2014 9:31 PM, John W. Foster wrote:
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 14:30 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 3/24/2014 12:45 PM, John Foster wrote:
I have been trying to get lighttpd to run as my web server but was not
able to get it properly configured. I kept getting an error message
saying that localhost was not configured properly and I could not use
the simple browser url "http://localhost to open the server. I decided
to reinstall apache2 & as I had totally removed ALL of apache2 even any
references to it; the new install was pristine from Debian stable. It
fired up but I'm still getting the same error when I try to use
localhost. I use localhost as my editing server for the mediawiki
installed there /var/www directly into that directory. Any ideas what I
have screwed up with my system that will cause this. Also the server is
not delivering the actual website either.
thanks
john
John,
What's the exact message you get?
Jerry
Well I have gotten past the message stage; Seems I needed to move all
the sites ( DWWW, GALLERY, Mediawiki, etc) into separate directories
under /var/www and to revert Apache to /var/www as the root directory
for the server. I also changed the owner back to root & permissions to
755 for /var/www. Currently I have localhost running and my IP DNS
server at godaddy sending everything to the correct IP address. I can
now run http://localhost/phpinfo.php which gets the running php
configuration OK. Now the issue seems to be that some scripts ending
in .php are not being allowed to run (under google chrome) instead they
are being downloaded & the source code displayed as text. I recall this
was an issue in older versions of apache, but for the life of me I don't
recall being required to add any exceptions such as AddHandler, AddType,
etc. since debian enabled all this by default. However those seems to be
required so I'm investigating them now. I will graciously accept any
advice.
Thanks
John
BTW: I was sufficiently warned by several list contributors about
lighttpd being a can of worms to configure, Just wanted to give it a go.
You don't need to have them all under /var/www, but you do need each
virtualhost to have its own directory. I'm running several hosts; I
have several different virtualhost entries in my Apache configuration.
Each one has an entry in the /etc/hosts file.
For instance, if one of the sites I manage is example.com, I'll have an
entry in /etc/hosts like:
127.0.0.1 example
And I'll have a virtualhost defined in Apache as
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerName example
DocumentRoot "/var/www/example/html"
...
</VirtualHost>
Files go in /var/www/example/html
To do it the Debian way, I place the virtual host information in
/etc/apache2/sites-available/example, then place a symlink to it as
//etc/apache2/sites-enabled/###-example, where ### is a 3-digit number
(sites are loaded in directory name sort order).
That way if I want to remove an entry, just remove the symlink and
restart Apache.
As for your PHP problem - you don't have PHP installed as an Apache
module. You need to get the package libapache2-mod-php5.
Jerry