Re: Baffled for two months - Need help

"Frederick Lamartin" <fhlamartin@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:20:22 -0400

Joshua,

Thanks for your attention. I'm trying to follow your guidance and, at the 

same time, develop a deeper understanding of the concepts involved in 

configuring Apache. Here's my latest failure:

DocumentRoot "C:/Users/Lamartin/My Website/"

<Directory "C:/Users/Lamartin/My Website/">

   Options Multiviews Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all

</Directory>

Alias /lamartin "C:/Users/Lamartin/My Website"

URL: "http://localhost/";  opens the default Apache index.html

URL: "http://localhost/~lamartin/"; leads to an Internet Explorer http #404 

error

Can you resteer me towards a solution?

Apache novice, Fred Lamartin

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Joshua Slive" <joshua@xxxxxxxx>

To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 12:36 PM
Subject: Re:  Baffled for two months - Need help

On 9/3/07, Frederick Lamartin <fhlamartin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I need help with a BASIC problem that has baffled me for two months. Here
are the
pertinent data.

1. Using a Windows Vista Home Premium platform, I cannot open my website 

in

the server.

2. The path to my website is "C:\Users\Lamartin\My Website".

3. Major elements of the configuration are:
    ServerRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2"
    Listen 80
    ServerName localhost:80
    UserDir Enabled lamartin
    UserDir "C:/Users/Lamartin/My Website"
    <Directory "C:/Users/Lamartin/My Website">
         AllowOverride None
         Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Includes ExecCGI
             Order allow,deny
          Allow from all
    </Directory>
    <IfModule dir_module>
        index.html index.html.var index.cgi
    </IfModule>

4. I have tried to get an index of my site in both I.E. and FireFox, by

using the following URL: http://localhost/~lamartin/. In I.E., the URL 

gives

an error ("Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"),  and the URL
gives a comparable error in Firefox.

5. The Apache error log entries for these trials are of this type: "[Sun 

Aug

05 19:09:13 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: 

C:/Program

Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/lamartin".

The last time you posted the exact same question I said:

On 8/6/07, Joshua Slive <joshua@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Do you really want to be using UserDir? Why not just use an Alias or
just change your DocumentRoot to point to the correct directory?

For example, get rid of the UserDir stuff and use
Alias /lamartin "C:/Users/Lamartin/My Website"

Was there something you didn't understand there? Why didn't you at
least answer my explicit questions?

Joshua.

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