Brian Mearns wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:43 AM, J. Bakshi <joyd...@infoservices.in> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have configured a personal work-space for mine in apache where I can >> experiment with different sites and here is the configuration >> >> ```````````````````````````````````````````` >> Alias /personal/joydeep /var/personal_work_area/joydeep >> >> DocumentRoot /var/personal_work_area/joydeep/ >> >> <Directory /var/personal_work_area/joydeep/> >> >> DirectoryIndex index.php >> >> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews >> AllowOverride All >> Order allow,deny >> allow from all >> >> </Directory> >> `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` >> >> I have placed a folder ( a site) there. So the absolute path of that >> folder is /var/personal_work_area/joydeep/experiment. Whenever I access >> the folder through browser by visiting >> http://192.168.1.1/personal/joydeep/experimet I get "page not found >> error". the log reports >> >> `````````````````````````` >> URL /personal/joydeep/experiment/index.php, referer: >> http://192.168.1.1/personal/joydeep/ >> ``````````````````````````````` >> It is definitely wrong as it refer the parent folder and not the >> subfolder "experiment" hence the index.php is missing. Is there any >> problem with my configuration ? >> >> > [clip] > > I don't really understand the problem. The error log shows that the > index page for the child ("experiment") directory is being requested. > I'm not sure why the referer is showing up the way it is, but that > shouldn't be relevant. The URL of interest in the log is > /personal/joydeep/experiment/index.php, so it would appear that this > file, /var/personal_work_area/joydeep/experiment/index.php, doesn't > exist. > >
the file exist here. ```````````````````````` debian:~# ls -l /var/personal_work_area/joydeep/experiment/index.php lrwxrwxrwx 1 wwwrun www 19 2009-10-28 22:22 /var/personal_work_area/joydeep/experiment/index.php ````````````````````````````````````````` > On a probably unrelated note, is there a reason you have an alias set > up for your document root? " As I have configured it is actually a personal workspace for experimental work. Actually it is protected by the " Require user" directive that only user can login there. > Aliases are usually used to make > directories that are not under the DocumentRoot available through the > web server, or sometimes to give alternate URLs to content that is > under the DocumentRoot (though RewriteRules are more common for that, > I think). > > -Brian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
