error log says: File does not exist: /usr/local/www/test/htdocs/

[mikeageend]

I am new toApache so I purgased the O'rRelliy book "Apache The Definitive Guide". I am referencing material from Chapter 2.

I am running Apache 1.3.19

Here is my http.conf file
User nobody
Group nobody
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /usr/local/

http://www/test/htdocs

I have an index.html in the htdocs directory

The book seems to imply that I can point my browser to

http://localhost

and it will display this index.html file, but all I get is this error message. I don't get the message if I point the browser to

http://localhost/index.html,

but this is not how the book says to do it and it does not render the html, but prints the html source.

I start the server as httpd -d /usr/local/

http://www/test

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[wallacebw]

Add the following to the bottom of your httpd.conf file...


/* Start Code Snippet
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory &quot;/usr/local/

http://www/test/htdocs&quot;>

# Web root
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
<Files ~ &quot;^\.ht&quot;>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
# the Files section ensures that users are unable to view
# the Security Info of .htaccess
</Directory>
End Code Snippet*/

 

[mikeageend]

I tried as you specified and the server complained about the Order and Allow keywords. I commented them out and the server started but with the same results as before.

I then tried an experiment. Instead of invoking httpd -d blah-blah, I used apachectl instead and changed the location of DocumentRoot in the default http.conf file I got when I did the initial install of the apache software. I placed an index.html in the DocumentRoot directory and pointed the browser to localhost and everything worked. I realize there are a number of settings in the http.conf I got with the initial, default apache setup so I don't know what settings caused this approach to work. The OReilly book seemed to suggest (realize I haven't read all of it yet) that the way to create different web sites and have the server point to them is with the httpd -d command. This does not appear to work as the book suggests. I am confused about the use of apachectl vs httpd.

Anyway, thanks for your quick response, it is appreciated.

Mike