Re: [gentoo-user] Apache 2.4 can not access server subdirectory

[Michael]

On Friday, 30 October 2020 18:29:18 GMT thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
> On 10/30/2020 11:55 AM, Michael wrote:
> > On Friday, 30 October 2020 16:27:05 GMT thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
> >> I have a bigger problem.
> >> The apache 2.4 doesn't read configuration files.
> >> In apache2.conf I have:
> >>
> >> # Include the virtual host configurations:
> >> IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
> >>
> >> So it should read read every *config file in sites-enabled/
> >> In that directory I have:
> >>
> >> ll sites-enabled/
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   35 Oct 27 21:15 000-default.conf ->
> >> ../sites-available/000-default.conf
> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3420 Oct 29 18:03 vhosts.conf
> >
> > I have different configuration files, one for each website.  This makes it
> > easier to know where to look and what to edit when I want to make changes.
> >
> >> vhosts.conf - define my web-site, but I commented everything out in that
> >> file (it is empty) and restarted apache:
> >> /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
> >>
> >> And I can still display my web page.
> >> How is it possible???
> >
> > I would assume it is possible to still display your website because the
> > main apache2.conf and/or ./sites-available/000-default.conf contain some
> > default settings which specify the DocumentRoot where your website
> > filesystem resides.
> >
> > Your approach to start from first principles by commenting out individual
> > configurations is sound, because you can check in this way what works and
> > what does not.
>
> I check all configuration files for "DocumentRoot" and all the files
> have DocumentRoot commented out (so nothing is active)
> grep -Rnw '/etc/apache2/' -e 'DocumentRoot'
>
> Restarted apache 2.4 and the web-page is still loading :-/

ServerRoot specified somewhere?  Increase log verbosity and see what it 
reports, otherwise I'm out of ideas!