Re: Apache2 404

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

ldmkolxm@yahoo.com wrote: 
> I am having a problem with Apache2.  I have set a new configuration and have three html pages defined.  The inital html (index.html) displays fine on my laptop on my home network; however, when I attemp to go to the second page I get 404 not found on this server.  If I use localhost on my linux machine the second page diplays in firefox as "file:///. . .I have done the appropriate a2ensite and a2dissite commands.  I am new at Linux so any advice is appreciated.  If there are other files that you need to look at, let me know.
> Thanks,     Larry
> 


> <VirtualHost *:80>
> DocumentRoot /var/www/ldmdomain.info/html
> <Directory /var/www/ldmdomain.info/html>
>        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>        AllowOverride All
>        Order deny,Allow
>        Allow from all
>        Require all granted
> </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>

This should be in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ something, and
then linked to  sites-enabled/

> # Include the virtual host configurations:
> IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf

This is what allows that.

>Configuration file /etc/apache2/sites/available/ldmdomain.info.conf

It's sites-available and sites-enabled, not sites/available.

> ServerName ldmdomain.info

I can't ping or whois this, so that's a big problem. Register a
domain and get DNS going for it, or this will not work outside 
of your own local network.

Inside your local network, you will need an A or AAAA and/or
CNAME record pointing to ldmdomain.info and optionally (but you
should) www.ldmdomain.info

> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerAdmin admin@ldmdomain.info
> ServerName ldmdomain.info
> ServerAlias www.ldmdomain.info
> DocumentRoot /var/www/ldmdomain.info/html
>   <Directory /var/www/ldmdomain.info/html>
>       Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
>       AllowOverride All
>   </Directory>
> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
> CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
> </VirtualHost>

That all looks OK.

-dsr-