I have a dedicated server running Red Hat 7.2 with Apache 1.3.24. For some reason I can't get to any of the pages I have in my directory and I was wondering if someone could tell me if one of my settings are wrong under Webmin , Apache Webserver. Here's what I have:

Default Server

Defines the default settings for all other virtual servers, and processes any unhandled requests.
Address Any
Port Any
Server Name Automatic
Document Root "/usr/local/apache/htdocs"

Virtual Server

Handles the name-based server domain.com on address IP Address

Address IP Address
Port 80
Server Name domain.com
Document Root /home/website/htdocs


Here's whats coming up in my error log:

[Thu Jun 13 11:22:46 2002] [error] [client IP ADDRESS] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/test.html

Shouldn't it be looking in /home/website/htdocs, instead of /usr/local/apache/htdocs? If so, how do I change it?

You also need to tell Apache that the IP Address will be used as a virtual server. You will need to add a line like this:

NameVirtualHost IP.Address.of.virtual.host

I have this in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

<VirtualHost MYSERVERSIPADDRESS>
DocumentRoot /home/website/htdocs
HostNameLookups off
ServerAdmin admin@domain.com
ServerName domain.com
#CustomLog /home/website/logs/access_log
#ErrorLog /home/website/logs/error_log
#ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/website/public_html/cgi-bin
</VirtualHost>

I had to comment out the customlog, errorlog, and scriptalias because it was coming up as an error when I ran the apachectl config test. Any ideas why I was getting those errors?

The NameVirtualHost was set to:

#NameVirtualHost *

and I tried this:

NameVirtualHost MYSERVERSIPADDRESS

but it still didn't work. It is still showing up as, [Thu Jun 13 12:45:51 2002] [error] [client IPADDRESS] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/test.htm in my error log.

Any ideas?


JTM

did you restart apache after you edited the conf file? :cartman:

Yes.

When I compiled Apache I just typed in the default ./configure then make then make install. Did I miss something?


JTM

he means after you make changes to the httpd.conf file Apache has to be restarted to allow those changes to take affect:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

Tip:Recompile with ./configure --enable-module=so --enable-module=rewrite
If you don't you can use PHP and cool stuff like that
Also it seems lessa bugy that way

Thanks for all of your replies. I ended up recompiling Apache with./configure --enable-module=most --enable-shared=max and just manually edited the httpd.conf file instead of using Webmin. I think Webmin was screwing a lot of the settings up to.

Everything is back up and running now!


JTM

Webmin hasn't been updated to any version of Apache newer than 1.3.3

Really? Do you know of another control panel that is free? I don't really need something like Plesk because I only have 3 sites on the server and I don't want to pay the license fees.

Or do you know of something I can easily create/manage POP3 accounts with?


JTM