I have lost web browser access to my local PHP files. Fortunately phpmyadmin continues to work nicely.
When I type my server ip in Firefox I get:
Index of /
[ICO] Name Last modified Size Description
Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80as if /var/www was empty, which is not the case. I guess that Apache now has some other folder (or none at all) defined as root directory location, but I do not know how to fix it.
4 Answers
Your html or php files have to be moved to the new root:
/var/www/html/The new Apache default server location is /var/www/html. You can move all your files to the new directory or you can do the following on a terminal (as root):
# cd /etc/apache2/sites-available # nano site1Now, on nano paste the following:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName site1 DocumentRoot /var/www/ <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" <Directory "/usr/share/doc/"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>Save the file and run these commands (again as root):
# a2ensite site # nano /etc/hostsNow add this on the first line: 127.0.0.1 localhost site1
Save the file and reload Apache with this command (again as root):
# /etc/init.d/apache2 reloadYou should get a message telling you site1 is enabled. Now you can safely remove /var/www/html so you don't have an empty directory on your server:
# rm /var/www/html/Hope it helps, greetings.
1If you have virtual hosts defined in sites-available, probably hosted in distinct directories outside of /var/www/html, then you may have stumbled into the new configuration file naming convention.
Make sure your virtual host configuration files end in .conf.
Full explanation here:
Copy all the html files under /var/www/html. Now open the terminal and change the permission with sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www, now you wont get such errors when you run in firefox.
