On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 21:52 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 3/24/2014 9:31 PM, John W. Foster wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 14:30 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> On 3/24/2014 12:45 PM, John Foster wrote: > >>> I have been trying to get lighttpd to run as my web server but was not > >>> able to get it properly configured. I kept getting an error message > >>> saying that localhost was not configured properly and I could not use > >>> the simple browser url "http://localhost to open the server. I decided > >>> to reinstall apache2 & as I had totally removed ALL of apache2 even any > >>> references to it; the new install was pristine from Debian stable. It > >>> fired up but I'm still getting the same error when I try to use > >>> localhost. I use localhost as my editing server for the mediawiki > >>> installed there /var/www directly into that directory. Any ideas what I > >>> have screwed up with my system that will cause this. Also the server is > >>> not delivering the actual website either. > >>> thanks > >>> john > >>> > >>> > >> > >> John, > >> > >> What's the exact message you get? > >> > >> Jerry > >> > > Well I have gotten past the message stage; Seems I needed to move all > > the sites ( DWWW, GALLERY, Mediawiki, etc) into separate directories > > under /var/www and to revert Apache to /var/www as the root directory > > for the server. I also changed the owner back to root & permissions to > > 755 for /var/www. Currently I have localhost running and my IP DNS > > server at godaddy sending everything to the correct IP address. I can > > now run http://localhost/phpinfo.php which gets the running php > > configuration OK. Now the issue seems to be that some scripts ending > > in .php are not being allowed to run (under google chrome) instead they > > are being downloaded & the source code displayed as text. I recall this > > was an issue in older versions of apache, but for the life of me I don't > > recall being required to add any exceptions such as AddHandler, AddType, > > etc. since debian enabled all this by default. However those seems to be > > required so I'm investigating them now. I will graciously accept any > > advice. > > Thanks > > John > > > > BTW: I was sufficiently warned by several list contributors about > > lighttpd being a can of worms to configure, Just wanted to give it a go. > > > > > > You don't need to have them all under /var/www, but you do need each > virtualhost to have its own directory. I'm running several hosts; I > have several different virtualhost entries in my Apache configuration. > Each one has an entry in the /etc/hosts file. > > For instance, if one of the sites I manage is example.com, I'll have an > entry in /etc/hosts like: > > 127.0.0.1 example > > And I'll have a virtualhost defined in Apache as > > <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80> > ServerName example > DocumentRoot "/var/www/example/html" > ... > </VirtualHost> > > Files go in /var/www/example/html > > To do it the Debian way, I place the virtual host information in > /etc/apache2/sites-available/example, then place a symlink to it as > //etc/apache2/sites-enabled/###-example, where ### is a 3-digit number > (sites are loaded in directory name sort order). > > That way if I want to remove an entry, just remove the symlink and > restart Apache. > > As for your PHP problem - you don't have PHP installed as an Apache > module. You need to get the package libapache2-mod-php5. > > Jerry Sorry to say but I actually do have libapache2-mod-php5 installed. I'm now wondering if the ZendServer I installed, from their website, then removed somehow rewrote some configs somewhere. It installed a crap load of specialized php stuff, which I also removed. John
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