On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:35 AM Geert Stappers <stapp...@stappers.nl> wrote:
> 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? > > > Yes, with "$ sudo systemctl restart apache2". > > 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. > > As I understand Dan Ritter elsewhere in this thread, yes, DocumentRoot is hard-coded at compile-time (by Debian, not upstream), currently to /var/www/html. That answers my question. Thanks, y'all! -- Kent West <")))>< IT Support / Client Support Abilene Christian University Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
