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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:21:41 +0100
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From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Troubleshooting namebased virtual websites

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, John Hudak <jjhudak@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having an issue where none of the three virtual websites I've create=
d
> are being served when requested. I basically followed the approach
> documented here:
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/412
>
> I am running Ubuntu server 8.04 LTS. My router successfully forwards the
> incomming page request to my server (193.168.0.110).=C2=A0 I am able to s=
erve a
> single site, that is set up slightly differently than the three virtual
> sites.=C2=A0 The main difference is that the document root is in my home
> directory (/home/me/my_website_docs).
>
> When a request comes in for one of the virtual sites, i.e. www.example.co=
m,
> the apache error log records (from-:tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log):
> [Tue Jul 10 10:00:49 2010] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not
> exist: /htdocs
>
> I've set the /var/www file protection to: 766 for all the files to be
> served. The owner is apache.
>
> I put a 'dummy' index.html file in each of the htdoc directories.
> I have tried a number of things including: eliminating the domain directo=
ry
> structure and just serving from /var/www/, making the sites-available fil=
e
> for each domain minimal by just specifying: domain name, doc root, alias,=
.
> I've done a few other things that I can't remember at this point.
>
> So, any suggestions as to how to troubleshoot this problem?=C2=A0 One of =
my
> questions is what is this error really telling me?=C2=A0 is it looking fo=
r a file
> "/htdocs"?=C2=A0 Where is it looking for this file? If it is looking for
> "/htdocs" why??? and why not the DirectoryIndex of index.html as I specif=
ied
> in sites-available??
>
> Suggestions are really appreciated as I am dead-ended on this one....
> Thank you!
> John
>
>

It's looking for '/htdocs', or more likely, it is looking for
'/htdocs/foo/bar/quuz.html', but '/htdocs' isn't there, so why look
any further. Have you set your ServerRoot incorrectly?

Can you show your vhost config?

Cheers

Tom

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