Apache Virtual Hosting Frustrations

[Basil L. Copeland Jr.]

I installed psyche today on a computer used to host a school web server running Apache. I did a totally clean install, replacing RH 7.3. So I now have to recreate the virtual hosting. It is driving me crazy. Apache/httpd is running, and localhost/127.0.0.1 displays the ubiquitous Apache test page. But that is all I get. Even after setting up a "Virtual Host 0" using the RH GUI tool, that's all I get--the Apache test page, not the index.html that should be loading from the document root for the virtual host.

And then there is this mystery. There is no index.html for the Apache test web page in /var/www/html despite this being the default DocumentRoot. So where is this being loaded from? A search of all "index.html" files on the hard drive failed to locate it.

Here, briefly, is how I am trying to set up "Virtual Host 0." If I can get this one working, I can get the other hosts running. The document root is:

/var/www/html/rhdocs

And the servername is

rhdocs.078lab.net

Though I'm using the GUI tool, inspecting the httpd.conf file seems to show the virtual host configuration is correct.

When I try to access "rhdocs.078lab.net" remotely, I get the Apache test page, not the index.html in /var/www/html/rhdocs. Why is that? And why isn't this Apache test page in /var/www/html?

Any help will be appreciated.