Re: Apache Virtual Hosting Frustrations

[Basil L. Copeland Jr.]

At 02:01 PM 10/6/2002 +0100, you wrote:

A stab in the dark:

#
# Disable autoindex for the root directory, and present a
# default Welcome page if no other index page is present.
#
<LocationMatch "^/$>
    Options -Indexes
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/noindex.html
</LocationMatch>

This section of configuration may explain your problem.
If there is no index.html in your virtual-host, then an index won't be
displayed, or a forbidden page: instead you receive
"/error/noindex.html" which is the welcome you've got Apache set up
page.
I disabled this feature by removing the config- as it was more of
annoyance than help.

Check that you have the index.html in the right place, right
permissions, etc.

Thanks for the tip! This would explain why I get the default test page even though it is not in the default document root.

If that doesn't solve your problem then post a VirtualHost section from
your httpd.conf and we'll see if there's something wrong.

Will do, though it may be a day or too coming. The machine is at school, and I don't go back until Tuesday. But at least I now have something new to check out.

Again, thanks.

-Basil