From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 13:35:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2215D37B4EC for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:35:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1KLYuE51025; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 07:35:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <011401c09b85$1498fca0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Rick Hamell" , "FreeBSD-questions" References: Subject: Re: Apache Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 07:35:36 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had what sounds exactly the same problem a while back .... hours & hours of tearing hair out later I stumbled across the solution. For some reason beyond me, the default data directory in apache points to a symlink, & apparently that is critical and must be left intact even though httpd.conf points to the actual data files elsewhere. I'd deleted that inadvertently without realizing it was critical, hence the error 404. Maybe someone more knowledgable than me understands more about the issue .... as always there isn't anything obvious in the docs about the symlink. I "borrowed" a number of httpd.confs without making the slightest difference ... it was only by reinstalling Apache completely that the problem was resolved. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Hamell" To: "FreeBSD-questions" Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 5:06 AM Subject: Apache > > Does anyone have a working same httpd.conf that I could take a > look at? I'm getting: HTTP/1.0 404 Object Not Found (The system cannot > find the path specified. ) The only other problem I can think is that DNS > is still incorrect... ftp.1nova, 1nova.com, heorot.1nova.com and > www.1nova.com all point to the same server via DNS. Using just the IP seem > to give the same error. I've looked at www.apache.org and read the > documentation; unluckily I'm just not understanding it very > well. :) Thanks for any help! > > Rick > > > ******************************************************************* > Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd > Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware > ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message