Kent West wrote: > But if I disable 000-default.conf, by running a2dissite 000-default (and > verify that the sites-enabled dir is empty), 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?
The default DocumentRoot is set at compile time. The one from the factory is DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache/htdocs". Debian sets it to /var/www/html, and previously set it to /var/www. -dsr-
