Thank you Luca, it does help, it even solves ... I can retrace the steps of my error now : 1) I call my host "lacolshow" and there's localhost in the apache system, so seeing the two often at close intervals made me once confuse them and mistype "lacolhost". 2) As I often rely of my browser's autocompletion mechanism, the error repeated itself without me noticing it. I wonder though why Apache answers "It works" on "lacolhost.com" but answers "Server not found" on a random, meaningless URL like http://www.qrstuqvqwq.com/. I presume that lacolhost.com is an already existing website that I cannot view directly. On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Luca Toscano <toscano.luca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Roparzh, > > > 2016-11-18 15:13 GMT+01:00 Roparzh Hemon <roparzhhemon@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> Apache says "It works" but also "Requested URL could not be found" >> >> This problem seems to have jumped out of nowhere when I returned >> from other projects. The project worked fine before. >> A random Google search suggests the problem might come from permissions, >> but file permissions seem OK (see below). >> >> The access and log files are blank. >> Any help appreciated. >> >> The details : >> >> Apache says "It works" when I type http://www.lacolhost.com > > > this is probably because you are getting the output of the default virtual > host (side note: in your definition below there is "localshow.com" not > "localhost.com") > >> >> >> Apache says "The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server" >> when >> I type http://www.lacolhost.com/index.php > > > Have you tried with localshow.com? Is it a transcript error? > >> >> >> My /private/etc/hosts file contains the line >> >> 127.0.0.1 localshow.com www.localshow.com > > > Please check that this domain resolves to localhost with dig or similar. > If it doesn't work, you can easily simulate it your browser on a shell with: > > curl http://localhost/index.php --header "Host: localshow.com" > >> >> >> >> My /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file contains the >> following paragraph : >> >> <VirtualHost *:80> >> ServerName localshow.com >> ServerAlias www.localshow.com >> DocumentRoot "/Users/myusernamehere/Documents/Sites/Show" >> ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/localshow.com-error_log" >> CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/localshow.com-access_log" common >> ServerAdmin web@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> LoadModule php5_module /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so >> <Directory /Users/myusernamehere/Documents/Sites/Show> >> Require all granted >> DirectoryIndex index.php >> </Directory> >> </VirtualHost> >> >> Permissions for /Users/myusernamehere/Documents/Sites/Show >> >> drwxr-xr-x 18 myusernamehere staff 612 11 nov 15:07 >> >> >> Permissions for /Users/myusernamehere/Documents/Sites/Show/index.php : >> >> -rw-r--r--@ 1 myusernamehere staff 23 18 nov 14:25 index.php >> > > Hope that helps! > > Luca > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx