Apache 2

kroenecker · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 64

My server starts without problems from what I can tell, but when I go to localhost/index.html the text in the html file is displayed without being interpreted by the browser. That is, all html tags are shown etc.

I'm using the default httpd.conf file. Do I need to change a setting?

koara · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject: Re: Apache 2

kroenecker · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 64

I haven't changed the httpd.conf file at all. I am running on an amd64 box, but I wouldn't think that that would be a problem.

Basically the text below is displayed in Firefox when I enter localhost in the url:

koara · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject:

What browser are you using?

kroenecker · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 64

Firefox

kroenecker · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 64

This is slightly frustrating.

I tried reemerging apache2 with no luck.

When I browse to the index.html file using Firefox, everything displays properly.

When I enter localhost as the url, the html--tags and all--is spit out onto the screen.

koara · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject:

kroenecker · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 64

I appreciate the suggestions, but that's not it either.

I'm starting to wonder if I don't have a flag enabled that is necessary in the compile or if maybe amd 64 just isn't very "stable." I've even tried starting apache with apache2ctl -k start. Still everything is displayed as text.

Very annoying.

yinrunning · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:46 am Post subject:

I can't shed much light on a solution, but I can tell you this: The output you're seeing is what the browser is _supposed_ to get from apache. The browser itself is responsible for rendering it, as long as it knows what it is. That probably means that something in the http headers for the page aren't right. Firefox is interpretting this as a plain text file - or possibly something else altogether - not html. And yes, apache _is_ responsible for sending the correct headers, just not for rendering the page.

To be more specific, consider that firefox will open the page and render it correctly if you simply open it from the filesystem. In that situation, there's no headers being sent at all, so firefox just deals with what it sees: text/html. That increases the possibility that apache is sending out headers that specify some other mime type besides text/html. Or maybe just complete jibberish.

You might try Ctrl-i in firefox and check what it thinks the page is.

kroenecker · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 64

Well you are right in that Firefox thinks that the encoding is text/plain...

I have the following in my httpd.conf

kroenecker · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 64

Well I changed the default setting from text/plain to text/html and now everything works (so far).

I'm wondering, if anyone knows why this wasn't working before especially since the original config file says that text/plain should work for html?

yinrunning · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:38 am Post subject:

Because the orig. is stoopid.

I've been working on setting up Apache as well, and I had to do the same. I'm about to scrap the example .conf. I've got a copy of the O'Reilley Apache book (so dated!) and I'm just gonna build a conf file from scratch.

Out of curiosity, what's the name/location of your conf file?

yinrunning · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:50 am Post subject:

Yeah, alot of it probably has to do with this. Where it talks about the default current directory structure? That's a completely strange and very non-standard way of doing things. I'm guessing that the same people who thought that that was a good idea thought that text/plain was a good idea..

kroenecker · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 64

My httpd.conf file is under /etc/apache2. Was that what you were asking for?

Thanks for your responses. And I'll keep you posted as I become better at using apache.

By the way are you going to be making a pure html website? Trying any javascript, perl, java, etc?

yinrunning · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:44 am Post subject:

javascript no matter what, but that's not server-side.

I'll be using php_mod, also no matter what, and I'll eventually be sighing heavily and returning to perl, because I have to. lol.

And yes, let's trade notes. i think my IM's on here. Feel free to drop me a line. I'll be messing with it all weekend.