Hi Boyle, Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 4:23:28 PM, you wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard Luckhurst [mailto:rluckhurst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:09 AM >> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Can't find index.html >> >> Hi >> >> This is probably a silly simple question. I have just set up >> Apache 2.2.4 on a >> Fedora Core 4 box and am having a little trouble. When I >> browse to the website >> url BO> "website url"? would that be http://server or http://server/? In the case that is causing problems it is https://secure.resmaster.com/ that does not work but https://secure.resmaster.com/index.html works. Note that I have no trouble with http:// sites. >> I find I get a messsage wanting to save or open the home >> page. BO> That looks like a wrong mime-type.. Can you check the response header BO> (eg, via LiveHTTPHeaders extension in FireFox)? Here is the output from LivrHTTPHeaders https://secure.resmaster.com/ GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: secure.resmaster.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 07:24:25 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:26:05 GMT Etag: "10a8da-4ac-1380f540" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1196 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/x-httpd-php ---------------------------------------------------------- https://secure.comodo.net/trustlogo/javascript/trustlogo.js GET /trustlogo/javascript/trustlogo.js HTTP/1.1 Host: secure.comodo.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 07:24:58 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:12:45 GMT Etag: "22678-3e3b-424a61063f540" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 15931 Cache-Control: max-age=86400 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/x-javascript ---------------------------------------------------------- BO> BTW, what *exactly* is the browser prompting you to save (ie, the "home BO> page")? The Downloads window pops up and it is showing a temporary html file with the option to open or remove it. If I use IE 7 I get the file download window trying to download a file called secure.resmaster[1] and the Type is resmaster[1]_auto_file. >> I f I browse >> to the url/index.html then the page opens fine. What have I >> forgotten to set up? BO> Something to do with apache's self-referential URLs and/or the BO> directory-indexing mechanism... BO> Check out these two directives: BO> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#usecanonicalname BO> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex The Directory Index directive is as follows. DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.shtml index.cgi index.php index.phtml index.php3 index.htm home.html welcome.html UseCanonicalName was set to Off in the httpd.conf file and it made no difference set to On. BO> If, after digesting the information therein and trying a few things, it BO> still "doesn't work", post back. If you can, quote the headers returned BO> by the server. Regards Richard BO> Rgds, BO> Owen Boyle BO> Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. >> >> Regards, >> Richard Luckhurst >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> BO> BO> BO> This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain BO> confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No BO> confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. 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