Hy everyone, My apache server is only accepting a index.html not index.htm files? I did follow the "The perfect debian 3.1 setup" and changed the DirectoryIndex in the apache2.conf file as I schould. The is the problem on 2 machines so it could not be a one time typo Any help on the matter is verry much appreciated. Rgds Edo
Rtfm Okee, sorry RTFM question. Apache does not accept htm pages by default. Still don't understand than why I have to edit the DirectoryIndex to: DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php index.php3 index.pl index.xhtml ?? Will do some more reading on the matter. thanks....
If your index page always is index.htm, then Code: DirectoryIndex index.htm would be sufficient. But it's safer to have Code: DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php index.php3 index.pl index.xhtml because sometimes your index page is named index.php, sometimes index.html, etc.
more on the matter Thanks for you're response and sorry to carry on the discussion but i'm realy trying to understand this stuf. After doing some reading on apache freaks I found the folowing. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Example DirectoryIndex index.html then a request for http://myserver/docs/ would return http://myserver/docs/index.html if it exists, or would list the directory if it did not. Note that the documents do not need to be relative to the directory; DirectoryIndex index.html index.txt /cgi-bin/index.pl would cause the CGI script /cgi-bin/index.pl to be executed if neither index.html or index.txt existed in a directory ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This would suggest that the line, DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php index.php3 index.pl index.xhtml should accept a file like index.htm!! Why is my configuration than not accepting the index.htm? Is there an other file to edit or a module not loaded correct. Are there variables in memory that can be checked by some command. Thanks in advance Rgds Edo
Apache reads the files in the order you put them in the configuration. Therefore, if you have a file index.html and a file index.htm in your directory, then Apache will deliver index.html because it comes first.
got it I know that there can only be one index.* file in that location. Sorry for the misunderstanding. At least I have fixed the problem. While I was helping the site owner, he mentiond the problem of the htm and html file. He had 2 files and after renaming one of them to old_index.* the html file was not read du to an update he made in his file. He had a <IFrame> tag wich is not accepted by apache. I thought the files were identical and after all, on his windows desktop all worked fine in his local (windows)apache installation. I was getting some kind of acces denied message so I thougt apache could not read the file. But it could not read the <IFrame> part. Well at least I learned a lot of apache and wish to thank you for all you're help. Thanks!!!
