On 4/6/2020 8:26 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I am searching for a guide for configuration of Apache 2.4 on Debian > 10. Thus far, my web searches have found guides for Debian 9 and > guides for Apache 2.2. > > I am aware of "https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/"; and am digesting it > as rapidly as I can. > > I have been working my way through the Chapter 11 tutorial of the > O'Reilly Perl Template Toolkit. I am about halfway through the > chapter, starting to create a menu. I can see the topmost page, > "index.html" and the menu, but when I click on any of the menu items, > the browser complains that the page cannot be found. For example, > "index.html" and "about.html" are in the same directory, but the > browser cannot display "about.html". > > After carefully checking my code against the example code published by > O'Reilly, I conclude that I must have an error in my Apache 2.4 > configuration. > The HTML generated by the toolkit is placed in the directory > "/home/rlh/web/ttbook/html/", while images are placed in > "/home/rlh/web/ttbook/images/". The tutorial, written for Apache > 2.2, recommends: > > Alias /ttbook/images/ /home/rlh/web/ttbook/images/ > Alias /ttbook/ /home/rlh/web/ttbook/html/ > Directory /home/rlh/web/ttbook/ > > Supposedly, the result is: > > = The root document URL is "/ttbook/". > = The root images URL is "/ttbook/images/". > = The default host is "http://localhost/";. > > With my current mis-configuration, the generated HTML is visible at > "file:///home/rlh/web/ttbook/html/index.html" but not at > "http://localhost/index.html";.
If you don't specify 'index.html', do you get it? Looking in apache's log should give a clue of what's going rong. > I think that, to begin with, I need to find a good explanation of the > concept of "localhost". Hopefully that is somewhere in the Apache 2.4 localhost is simply a name to specify 127.0.0.1 or ::1. > official documentation. > > RLH > -- John Doe
