Scott Bowden wrote: > I'm having some difficulty getting apache2 configured, and after doing > quite a lot of googling, I'm pretty well stumped as to where to go. > > Let me preface this by saying that it's entirely possible I've done > something very, very stupid. > > That said: > > I recently moved to a new server, and in the process upgraded to > apache 2.0.54, having been running apache 1.3 for quite some time. I > host around 6 or 7 different websites off this setup using vhosts. A > few of these websites use php4. > > I seem to have gotten myself into the following situation: > > There are three sites: > > 1. example.com > 2. www.example.com > 3. test.example.com > > The first two are actually the same site. The third is a separate > site. All three have "index.php" in their document root - though not > the same 'index.php'. (1 and 2 share one, 3 has it's own, entirely > other). > > PHP works perfectly on test.example.com. It also works perfectly on > www.example.com. However, on example.com, every time I try to load up > the root (ie. http://example.com/), Apache 2 attempts to let me (using > FireFox) download the file, instead of parsing it. > > It gets stranger. > > If I go to http://example.com/index.php , it works perfectly. Only > when going to the root (http://example.com) do I see this behavior. > Every PHP file on the server works exactly as it should. Only if I > load up the root is there a problem. > > Stranger still: if I choose to download the file, the transaction does > not appear in any log files. It's as though it never happened. > > Nothing I try gets this to reproduce on www.example.com and > test.example.com. Only on the bare example.com can I get this to > occur. > > I've looked through my configs, and nothing jumps out at me. I've even > switched the hosts around. I moved the config for test.example.com > into the config file for example.com - no dice (the error occurred). I > changed the example.com config so that it was now set (via the > ServerName directive) to be test.example.com, and it worked > flawlessly. > > In short, no matter which of the three configurations I use, they work > flawlessly if their ServerName is anything other than 'example.com'. > If their ServerName is 'example.com', every single one of them > attempts to have the user download index.php if the user tries to load > 'http://example.com/'. > > I'm fairly convinced this is not a PHP issue, because as I've said, 2 > of the 3 sites work flawlessly - and in fact, all of them work > flawlessly if they are not vhosts for 'example.com'. So, I'm left with > this being an apache configuration issue. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Could be a DNS issue too. When DNS fails, nowadays browers tend to auto-correct things. Which sometimes gives you unexpected effects while debugging. -- Email: wolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +41 (43) 243 93 44 Mobile: +41 (78) 897 87 76 Kochstrasse 18 CH - 8004 Zurich Switzerland --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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