Problem with setting up the webserver

[highestblue]

I was able to setup everything ok due to the wonderful guide at http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html.

But I have two problems. And I'm guessing they are probably caused by the same reason.

First, I can't change the index screen to show anything else than the

thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server
[thttpd logo]
[Fedora Logo]

Second, when I try to browse http://myserver.com/phpmyadmin I get

404 Not Found The requested URL '/phpmyadmin' was not found on this server.

When I check the status of httpd under Server Settings -Service, it is shown as stopped. And during the loading stage to the login screen, everything checks out ok, but there's one failure which says something like

port http://myserver.com/ is outside of appropriate range.

I figured firewall must be the issue, so I played with all three ports 80,433,8080, but it didn't do any good.

Any help will be very much appreciated. Thanks.

[highestblue]

Hi, just updating my staus on this issue. Someone suggested that I try,

[you@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# service thttpd stop
Stopping thttpd: [ OK ]
[root@localhost ~]# service httpd start
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
[root@localhost ~]

I did as said.

[root@localhost ~]# service thttpd stop
Stopping thttpd: [ OK ]

I got an ok for this line.

[root@localhost ~]# service httpd start

But this one failed. The first error I got was in line 264,

ServerName http://myserver.com

As before it was saying the port is outside of appropriate range. So I put the port number after it.

ServerName http://myserver.com:80

After I did this, I got a new error saying,

Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 172 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: LoadModule takes two arguments, a module name and the name of a shared object file to load it from

Think anyone can identify my problem?

[smfinley]

Are you running 32 bit or 64 bit Fedora Core? What is the content of your line 172 in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf? Mine is "LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so". Try commenting out that line. (Put a "#" in front of it.) You will have to restart Apache after you do this.

[highestblue]

Hi Stan, I'm running the 64 bit Fedora Core. I commented out all the module lines that were getting the syntax errors. Whiche were,
Line172

LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usert rack.so

Line185

LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir .so

Line195

LoadModule disk_cache_module modules/mod_disk _cache.so

Now I'm back to the original error regarding the port number at line 264.

Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 264 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
The port number "http://myserver.com:80" is outside the appropriate range (i.e., 1..65535).

[highestblue]

I think the problem must be with the DDclient. I'm going out now, but I will play around with the ddclient.conf file and report back on how things progress.

[highestblue]

Looks like ddclient wasn't the problem. When I run its debug command, everything checks out fine.

Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 264 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
The port number "http://mydomain.dyndns.org" is outside the appropriate range (i.e., 1..65535).

is still the problem.

Any suggestions?

[smfinley]

Examine your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf carefully. Make sure the line "ServerName www.example.com:80" has no extra characters in it, especially after the "80" and that the line breaks right after the "80".

[highestblue]

Finally got it working. With Stan's advice about "making sure there's no extra characters" in mind,

I took out the "http://" in http://mydomain.dyndns.org

I tried with and without the port number at the end of the url.

mydomain.dyndns.org
mydomain.dyndns.org:80

Either one works.
So whether or not putting the port number at the end doesn't seem to make a difference. At least for me that is. The real problem was putting "http://" in the front.

After I did this I got a new error saying,

Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 292 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Illegal option Options

So I commented out both line 292 and 293 which are

Line 292 Options Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
Line 293 AllowOverride Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

Also after this I did,

service httpd stop
service httpd start

both checked out fine.

Even after this I had to go through one more step which was to,

gedit /etc/hosts

and change the ip address in the file accordingly as I'm using the free dynamic dns service.

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
xx.xx.x.xxx (changed this ip address) mydomain.dyndns.org mydomain

After this, everything worked out fine.

At this point I have a question. Since I have a dynamic dns, the ip address will keep changing.
I realize the program ddclient is used to accomdate such issue. But I doubt it changes the ip address typed in the /etc/hosts. And unless ip address typed in /etc/hosts matches with the changing dynamic DNS, I can't access my server.

Is there a way to get around this problem?