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Old 09-02-2005
John Doe
 
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Default My Apache test page won't die!

I downloaded Apache and followed the instructions (config, make, make
install) and after ironing out a few things in httpd.conf like the Group
#-1, I got it to run. I know it's running because when I open the browser on
my other comp and type in my domain name, I get the page saying "If you can
see this...". Ok, great.

But, when I go into htdocs, there's no index.html. What there is, is a lot
of index pages with language extensions. So I copy the index page I want
into htdocs, and I get the test page again. Then I delete all the files in
htdocs except my index.html page, and still I get the test page. Then I
delete the pages in the manual directory, since the test page seems to link
to them, and the test page is STILL there. Then I rebooted, tried it, got
nothing because I hadn't started the server yet, started the server, and the
test page is back, despite there being *nothing* in the htdocs directory
anymore. But hey, something's messed up, right? So I go back to the
download, config, make, and makeinstall. I get a message that Apache is
preserving my directory structure in htdocs, so I go back, delete the
directory, go back to the download, config, make, make install. Then I
reboot, just in case that has something to do with it, and restart the
server. Aaaaaand the test page is back. Either that or it never left.

So how do I kill the test page? And how do I get the server to send out my
own index.html page?