On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:18:27AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I'm just tinkering, trying to wrap my brain around Apache2. I've done a > clean-install, and when I look through /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, I see no > reference to "DocumentRoot". > > There is one in /etc/apache2/sites-[available|enabled]/000-default.conf, so > of course, the web-server serves up the default Debian Apache2 web page > when I use my web-browser to point to localhost. This is as expected. > > But if I disable 000-default.conf, by running a2dissite 000-default (and > verify that the sites-enabled dir is empty),
Yes and has Apache been asked to reread its configuration? > the default web page is still > served up. I would have expected that to have broken the web-server, > preventing it from being able to serve the default web page (from > /var/www/html). The only thing I can think of to explain this is that > /var/www/html must be hard-coded in the Apache2 source as the DocumentRoom. > > Can anyone confirm/deny this, and/or explain why my Apache2 server is not > broken if I don't have any sites in the sites-available directory and the > main conf file does not specify the DocumentRoot? > > Thanks! Thank by reporting back. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
