Whose fault is it

Mallrats · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 6:38 am Post subject: Whose fault is it

when friends try to view my web site, links to http://ipaddress/subdirectory fail, but links to http://ipaddress/subdirectory/index.php work

Whose fault is this, apache or the web browser, and if it's apache's fault, how do I fix this?

I'm using Apache 2
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manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 743 Location: Inside

They both seem to work for me. But why are you advertising free cars?

Mallrats · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 6:48 am Post subject:

haha, those were just filler words, not actual links! I didn't know that they would resolve at all!
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manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 743 Location: Inside

It works for me if I use index.php.en instead of just index.php. I looked for a while a couple of months ago trying to find where that was set in the configs but failed. Ah well. Learning Apache is on my List of Things To Do next year (still '03 here).

Mallrats · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 7:08 am Post subject:

When the time comes, Happy New Year
By the way, 2004 is much different than 2003!
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jtp755 · l33t Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 691 Location: USA

also have a look at the DirectoryIndex line in your apache2.conf file.
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elzbal · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 9:17 am Post subject:

Are you sure you don't have a DirectoryIndex line? One appears (or should appear) in the file by default. If it is not there, I might be a bit worried that something else may be wrong. Do a search for "index.html" to see if you can find it.

The DirectoryIndex directive specifies a "default document" that will be served if a directory is requested. By default, the line should look like:

Chris W · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 9:45 am Post subject:

The DirectoryIndex directive is in commonapache2.conf for a standard Gentoo emerge of Apache2. The default install settings are fine, and shouldn't be causing this problem.

Have you started Apache with "-D PHP4"? See /etc/conf.d/apache2 to set/check this.
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Mallrats · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 2:45 pm Post subject:

Chris W · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 10:23 pm Post subject:

Did you check for "-D PHP4"?

Is this the default Apache site or have you set up your own vhost? If so, what is the configuration?

Does "http://ipaddress/subdirectory/" (note trailing slash) work?

Have you disabled mod_dir (responsible for rewriting "http://ipaddress/subdirectory" to "http://ipaddress/subdirectory/")?

When the "http://ipaddress/subdirectory" fails what is the error message, or do you get a directory listing?
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Mallrats · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 10:33 pm Post subject:

I have -D PHP4 enabled (without it, php wouldn't be working)
I don't know what a vhost is, so I think it's the default Apache site.
I can't tell you right now if a trailing slash makes a difference because the problem isn't with my system, it's with others who view my web page, whether they use Mozilla or IE. Everything, even no trailing slash, works on localhost, where the web site is being served from.
I didn't manually disable mod_dir, but where would that setting be so I can make sure?
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Mallrats · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 10:34 pm Post subject:

Think I found where it was, in /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf

Telamon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 129

Check your apache2.conf file and see if you have a line

Mallrats · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 1:04 am Post subject:

Thanks for the reply

Telamon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 129

Hmm, nope, if the file is blank including it doesn't trigger anything bad. Are you behind any sort of NAT box / firewall? Also, from your local machine, does it work if you use your public IP address (ie, http://123.45.67.89/dir/ instead of http://locahost/dir/)?

BTW: When someone goes to http://ipaddress/subdirectory what error do you get in error_log?

Mallrats · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 3:22 am Post subject:

Telamon:
I'm not behind any FireWall (that I know of), also, on my box, 123.45.67.89/dir does work.
I'll let you know about the error log when I get my tester online :-)

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Mallrats · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 3:23 am Post subject:

http://droberts.homelinux.org:8008/teacher
By the way, by all means look at the real site! There's not much at all there!

I may be turning the computer on and off, but otherwise it's usually on and serving
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Mallrats · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 4:03 am Post subject:

Looks like somebody else [client 66.157.73.48] was able to log into my site :-)

Anyone want to stand up ;-)

In other news, the log did not reveal any errors when my other friend tried going to the address with no trailing slash
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Chris W · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 5:25 am Post subject:

Is the PHP web-app directory in the default document root i.e. /var/www/localhost/htdocs ?

Is there a .htaccess file in /var/www/localhost/htdocs?
Is there a .htaccess file in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/subdirectory?
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Mallrats · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 5:37 am Post subject:

I don't know what a PHP web app directory is, and I'm pretty sure I don't have one in my DocumentRoot (no directory I can see)

There is not a .htaccess file in either directory
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Chris W · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 5:48 am Post subject:

The directory containing your PHP application is the one I was referring to.
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Chris W · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 5:59 am Post subject:

http://droberts.homelinux.org:8008/teacher/ works.
http://droberts.homelinux.org:8008/teacher/index.php works.

http://droberts.homelinux.org:8008/teacher gives me an error box indicating refusal when trying to contact 127.0.0.1:8008. Doesn't look like the server is able to work out its name for the redirecton. Set the ServerName parameter (/etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf) to your fully qualified domain name.
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manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 743 Location: Inside

I've been watching this thread interestedly as I have the same issue and the same default setup. As I posted above it works if I change index.php to index.php.en. Does this have to do with the language settings in commonapache2.conf?

Chris W · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 8:39 am Post subject:

I don't think Mallrats' problem is related to language settings. Mallrats' index.php is functioning if directly addressed.
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