Apache htdocs question

[AlStl]

I have installed apache 2.2.23 using following instructions:

$ gzip -d httpd-NN.tar.gz
$ tar xvf httpd-NN.tar
$ cd httpd-NN
Configure $ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
Compile $ make
Install $ make install
Customize $ vi PREFIX/conf/httpd.conf
Test $ PREFIX/bin/apachectl -k start

Apache started just fine, but when I used a browser to bring it up..it says It Works!

I was expecting to see apache interface where documentation links and other graphics. So, this is new to me. I went to look at httpd.conf and saw that: DocumentRoot /appl/apache/htdocs. htdocs has a file called index.html that contains the text it works. So everything is working as it should.

Now, my questions is why i only have index.html in htdocs directory? I remember previous versions used to have bunch of files in this directory including graphics and other html files for documentation etc. Where are all these files located?

Thanks,

Al

 

[feherke]

Hi

What if you access

http://localhost/manual/

?

For example my Apache 2.2.23 installed from Frugalware package has the [tt]DocumentRoot[/tt] set to /var/

http://www/html/

and the documentation in /var/

http://www/manual/

but there is an [tt]AliasMatch[/tt] directive making the documentation accessible through the mentioned URL.


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[AlStl]

Feherke, thanks for taking a jab at my question.
BTW I am doing it on Solaris machine.

I tried

http://localhost:10010/manual/

and it gave me Not Found "The requested URL /manual/ is not found on this server. Port is set us Listen 10010 in httpd.conf

I do have /appl/apache/manual directory.

Also, I do not see anything under /appl/apache/var/ expect a directory called logs /appl/apache/var/log and it has a file called httpd.pid, which i think is a log file for process ID.

Not sure what is going on here?

 

[feherke]

Hi

Well, I would search the configuration file(s) for the mentioned [tt]AliasMatch[/tt] directive and for that /appl/apache/manual path you mentioned. If found something, check whether those lines are not commented.

If no such directive exists, try to add something like the one I have :

AliasMatch ^/manual(?:/(?:de|en|fr|ja|ko|ru))?(/.*)?$ "/appl/apache/manual$1"

<Directory "/appl/apache/manual">
    Options Indexes
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

    <Files *.html>
        SetHandler type-map
    </Files>

    SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/de/ prefer-language=de
    SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/en/ prefer-language=en
    SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/fr/ prefer-language=fr
    SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/ja/ prefer-language=ja
    SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/ko/ prefer-language=ko
    SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/manual/ru/ prefer-language=ru
    RedirectMatch 301 ^/manual(?:/(de|en|fr|ja|ko|ru)){2,}(/.*)?$ /manual/$1$2
</Directory>

And of course, restart Apache after modifying the configuration.


Feherke.
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