Localhost

[Booma]

Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble with the concept of localhost. Do I need to start Apache before I can see my landing page at http://localhost.

I've successfully changed the directory of my local environment in the config file but seem to be getting nothing in the browser.

I'm doing something really silly, I know I am.

Thanks

[glennzo]

Is the httpd service running?

[Booma]

Thanks for your reply,

I believe it is running because I can now see the default Fedora Test Page, which I presume appears in the absence of any content.

The Test Page tells me that I can add my content to /varf/www/html/ However this is in the Root and I would rather have my web content in another location.

I've changed the location for my html content in the conf file but httpd://localhost still points to the default page..... Do I need to code this out in welcome.comf?

Thanks again

[glennzo]

Not sure. I'm not an apache guru. I just play with MoinMoin Wiki, which is working fine although I've had some issues with it in the past. Do you actually have content in another location? If so the problem may be with path configuration in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd/conf. Remember to restart apache any time you make config changes.

/sbin/service httpd restart

[Booma]

I keep forgetting to restart apache, good point.

Thanks for your help :-)

[knesenko]

Go to /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf and comment all the lines.Restart apache and you'll see your index.html

[Booma]

I think I may have it pinned down and it may be a permissions issue. This is the error I'm getting after changing the content location to /home/booma


Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server.
Apache/2.2.11 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 80

Don't worry if you haven't time to figure it out, but your help is appreciated.

Thanks

[knesenko]

I think the problem is permissions or SELinux. Try this:

su -
service httpd stop
chown -R apache.apache /var/www/
chown -R apache.apache /etc/httpd/
restorecon -R /etc/httpd/
restorecon -R /var/www/
service httpd start