Initial httpd.conf

I am setting up Apache Webserver on my PC for the first time.

When I go in to configure httpd.conf, I change the Document
Root to the Windows path to my documents (I am running Windows 2000
Professional).

When I bring up http://127.0.0.1, I get the standard 'Seeing
this instead of the website you expected?'. Try as I might, I cannot
figure out why.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?



Fred

On 08 Oct 2004, Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote in
news:324dm0d1i3egpgvo4cvmi57gtc0t769cth@4ax.com:

> When I go in to configure httpd.conf, I change the Document Root
> to the Windows path to my documents (I am running Windows 2000
> Professional).
>
> When I bring up http://127.0.0.1, I get the standard 'Seeing this
> instead of the website you expected?'. Try as I might, I cannot
> figure out why.

Did you restart the server after the change? Did you edit the
Directory directive to match the new document root location? Are you
using forward slashes in your path name?

The answer to all three questions is yes.



Fred

On 08 Oct 2004, Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote in
news:aebdm0psumvohgv5gmt786qnnl747bet7b@4ax.com:

> The answer to all three questions is yes.

OK. Some more thoughts...

Any chance that you're editing the wrong apache.conf?

Is your path enclosed in quote marks?

Is your main document in the documentroot called "index.html"?

What happens if you delete or move all the apache-installed default
documents well out of the way?

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:12:09 GMT, Nil <rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net>
wrote:

>Any chance that you're editing the wrong apache.conf?

I did a search for httpd.conf on my entire hard drive and did
not find another file named httpd.conf. And I found no file called
apache.conf.

>Is your path enclosed in quote marks?

Yes.

>Is your main document in the documentroot called "index.html"?

No. I appended it to have /index.html on the end of it.
Didn't make any difference.

>What happens if you delete or move all the apache-installed default
>documents well out of the way?

I'm not sure which file is the default document. This is
version 2.0, in case I didn't mention it. I'm still a little hazy
about the new stuff.



Fred

On 08 Oct 2004, Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote in
news:1btdm0tuloqsstv75on7tsk4l4r2k37383@4ax.com:

> I did a search for httpd.conf on my entire hard drive and did
> not find another file named httpd.conf. And I found no file
> called apache.conf.

Sorry, I meant httpd.conf .

>>What happens if you delete or move all the apache-installed
>>default documents well out of the way?
>
> I'm not sure which file is the default document. This is
> version 2.0, in case I didn't mention it. I'm still a little hazy
> about the new stuff.

I think the default documents are called something like
"index.html.en". There are other similar documents for other languages.
You should empty the document root directory of everything but your
main document and make sure it's called simply "index.html". If you
must call it something else, you will have to adjust some of the
directives in httpd.conf for apache to serve them by default.

I found index.html.en. When I renamed it and pulled up the
loopback address again, there was nothing there. So I changed the
name back and it worked again.

It doesn't seem to matter what I change, I cannot retarget it
to my Web documents.

Argh!



Fred

On 08 Oct 2004, Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote in
news:qhbem01gb07t8g1qim98ri99qthscdgek3@4ax.com:

> I found index.html.en. When I renamed it and pulled up the
> loopback address again, there was nothing there. So I changed the
> name back and it worked again.
>
> It doesn't seem to matter what I change, I cannot retarget it
> to my Web documents.

Somehow I get the feeling there's more to the story than what you've
said so far.

Was index.html.en living in the directory you had set to be the
documentroot? Is your own personal main document named "index.html"?

If the above is true, it should work if your httpd.conf is correct. It
doesn't make sense to me that apache is serving some documents but not
others. It should be either all or none. I'm not an expert, but my
setup is similar to yours, and my pretty much just worked out of the
box, except those times when I've messed it up.

Here are some parts of my httpd.conf that might be relevant:

Listen 8081

DocumentRoot "C:/apache/htdocs"

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory "C:/apache/htdocs">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 05:12:33 GMT, Nil <rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net>
wrote:

>On 08 Oct 2004, Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote in
>news:qhbem01gb07t8g1qim98ri99qthscdgek3@4ax.com :
>
>> I found index.html.en. When I renamed it and pulled up the
>> loopback address again, there was nothing there. So I changed the
>> name back and it worked again.
>>
>> It doesn't seem to matter what I change, I cannot retarget it
>> to my Web documents.
>
>Somehow I get the feeling there's more to the story than what you've
>said so far.

There probably is. But I have yet to figure it out.

>Was index.html.en living in the directory you had set to be the
>documentroot? Is your own personal main document named "index.html"?

It was in the htdocs directory. No, it is not my own personal
index.html.

>If the above is true, it should work if your httpd.conf is correct. It
>doesn't make sense to me that apache is serving some documents but not
>others. It should be either all or none. I'm not an expert, but my
>setup is similar to yours, and my pretty much just worked out of the
>box, except those times when I've messed it up.

It is serving the initial Web page that comes installed in
Apache Webserver for Windows version 2.0.

Well, I've changed the path to DocumentRoot to the directory
that holds my Web pages. Still there is no change. I even tried
rebooting the compter so it would reread everything and that didn't
make any difference. -

>Here are some parts of my httpd.conf that might be relevant:
>
>Listen 8081
>
>DocumentRoot "C:/apache/htdocs"
>
><Directory />
> Options FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride None
></Directory>
>
><Directory "C:/apache/htdocs">
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
></Directory>
>
>DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

Are you sure you haven't done anything with VirtualHost's at the bottom of
the file? Are you sure you are not starting Apache with some parameter that
selects which httpd.conf to use or something? Did you install the installer
from apache.org, or some other package?

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> On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 05:12:33 GMT, Nil <rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> >On 08 Oct 2004, Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote in
> >news:qhbem01gb07t8g1qim98ri99qthscdgek3@4ax.com :
> >
> >> I found index.html.en. When I renamed it and pulled up the
> >> loopback address again, there was nothing there. So I changed the
> >> name back and it worked again.
> >>
> >> It doesn't seem to matter what I change, I cannot retarget it
> >> to my Web documents.
> >
> >Somehow I get the feeling there's more to the story than what you've
> >said so far.
>
> There probably is. But I have yet to figure it out.
>
> >Was index.html.en living in the directory you had set to be the
> >documentroot? Is your own personal main document named "index.html"?
>
> It was in the htdocs directory. No, it is not my own personal
> index.html.
>
> >If the above is true, it should work if your httpd.conf is correct. It
> >doesn't make sense to me that apache is serving some documents but not
> >others. It should be either all or none. I'm not an expert, but my
> >setup is similar to yours, and my pretty much just worked out of the
> >box, except those times when I've messed it up.
>
> It is serving the initial Web page that comes installed in
> Apache Webserver for Windows version 2.0.
>
> Well, I've changed the path to DocumentRoot to the directory
> that holds my Web pages. Still there is no change. I even tried
> rebooting the compter so it would reread everything and that didn't
> make any difference. -
>
> >Here are some parts of my httpd.conf that might be relevant:
> >
> >Listen 8081
> >
> >DocumentRoot "C:/apache/htdocs"
> >
> ><Directory />
> > Options FollowSymLinks
> > AllowOverride None
> ></Directory>
> >
> ><Directory "C:/apache/htdocs">
> > Order allow,deny
> > Allow from all
> ></Directory>
> >
> >DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var
>