I had a server running WAMP, that served many phpBB forums. The HD went dead in 2010, but recently i was able to recover the whole data.
I put the old installation dir /wamp/ on same path it was before, run wampmanager.exe, server goes up and the website and the forums work fine as they were like in 2010. However, one of them was successful, and that one specifically don't work normally.
The directory structure is:
/AllSites/Foo/
/AllSites/Bar/
/AllSites/GoodSite/
/AllSites/ is an auto-generated apache index, that shows the forum folders (Foo, Bar, GoodSite).
When i navigate to to localhost/AllSites/GoodSite/, i see the browser requesting from http://old.no-ip.url/AllSites/GoodSite, and not from localhost, until it obviously timeouts.
Naturally, i went to GoodSite's phpBB configuration to check if the old.no-ip.url was being set somewhere. Not there, and not via MySQL search for old.no-ip.url string (phpBB actually only asks for /path/, not domain). So i tried to navigate manually to http://localhost/AllSites/GoodSite/index.php and my surprise, entering like that the site works fine and always stay at localhost.
That made me abandon phpBB as the cause of the issue and focus on Apache (i can even remove index.php from /GoodSite/ and it redirects).
Next thing, i went to .htaccess in /AllSites/ and saw Redirect permanent /AllSites/GoodSite http://old.no-ip.url/AllSites/GoodSite. I removed the line, restarted server, refreshed browser cache, but nothing. It always try to go to the old url when navigating to the GoodSite folder.
So i searched for old.no-ip.url in the whole xamp directory (maybe an alias set somewhere) and subdirectories files', for no result (using Notepad++ "Find in Files" option).
So what can be causing this? The only thing that could be redirecting at server level would be apache or maybe php. But there's no such setting, as the Notepad++ search confirmed. Maybe there is something cached? I ran out of solutions. I even tried deleting the .htaccess files.
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I have a Sites folder inside my user directory, where I put all of my apache project files, the weird thing is that I can access all of my folders, except for the main route "localhost/" which, of course, has no index.html document on it, its just folders, but I know I should be able to see something like this:
Index of Sites.
.project1
.project2
.project3
Instead, I get this
403 Forbidden
On my new job I was assigned to this Mac PC that belonged to someone else, and this person of course needed the same tools that I have been asked to download, they told me to uninstall all of that software and install it all over again (which I did), mainly the software that I'm using is an apache server with homebrew.
I have always had this problem, but I ignored it because I thought, well, do I really need to see an "index of Sites" page when I can manually change to whatever folder I want? my answer was, not really.
But yesterday they asked me to download webpack and nodeJs, and I did, so I made a dummy project with webpack that contained all of the js and config files, but it didn't have an index.html file. And surprise surprise, I got a 403 forbidden error when entering the dummy folder in localhost.
So I'm guessing that my apache for some reason is giving me 403 errors when I do not have an index.html file or an index.php file to show.
Have you ever experienced something like this?
So I am at my wits end with this problem of trying to configure a simple Apache Web Server for one of my assignments. For some reason my changes to index.html are no longer being read, even though I got it to change previously.
I had this problem previously, where I would change index.html and it would still show the default "It works!" message. It ended up that, because my file extensions weren't shown, I had accidentally named the file index.html.html, and so obviously it wasn't locating it.
However, now that my file extensions are showing, I am having this problem again (the last fiasco was about a week or two ago). I tried changing the contents of index.html again, just a simple text change, and it is still loading my previous page. I have tried restarting Apache through Administrative Tools > Services since the Apache and httpd commands in the command line won't work for me. I even tried deleting the index.html file and leaving htdocs empty and it's still displaying my old web page!!!
I have no idea why it's doing this and I can't find any other answers. I checked my DirectoryRoot and DirectoryIndex values and they all point to index.html (and plus, I haven't touched httpd.conf since installation anyways). Running Windows 8.1. Any help greatly appreciated.
Modern Windows has a feature that copies some files when non-administrator edit them. You see the changes, but the service doesn't. Try editing your files as Administrator (not just someone with Administrator group privileges)
I currently run on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. I'm not a server admin by any means, and just really have basic setup/config knowledge. I got a virtual box so I could learn more. Unfortunately, I just took a bit of a leap and screwed everything up.
I'm running Apache2, PHP, MySQL. This morning, I got a prompt saying I could update my server. I wasn't thinking and decided to go through with it. In addition to completely screwing up my server settings, I'm pretty sure I've lost data. But first I need to get my server running properly again (and probably never update without paying someone to do it for me).
I got most things up and running, but now when I go to my site (gamersplane.com), some paths end up 404'ing, and going to the Apache 404 instead of hitting the htaccess. The way I have it setup, the htaccess should get all files (barring things like css, js, images, xml, etc), and direct it all to a file called dispatch.php which processes the url and determines what to do/load. Basically, some stuff goes to the htaccess, other stuff isn't. I'm not sure why.
Mainly, files directly under /javascript won't load, but files in subfolders of /javascript do. In addition, going to /tools (folder exists) works, but /tools/cards (folder doesn't exist) doesn't. Strangely though, /forum (folder exists) and /forum/3 (doesn't exist) both work. I can't figure out when things do or don't work (systematically).
apache.conf: http://pastebin.com/A3J4bXE3
gamersplane.conf: http://pastebin.com/TAD06h59
Update
I found out about package called javascript-common which forces /javascript to search elsewhere. I uninstalled the package, and JavaScript is now loading. I'm told I need the package, but I don't know why.
This still doesn't solve why some other paths don't work.
I have installed Apache on Xubuntu and I am have a problem accessing it from the internet.
If I access it via localhost I can reach the home page plus pages in the subdirectory. How if I access it from the internet I can get the home page but nothing else. When I type in the subdirectory and page, no links at this point, It either never leaves the home page or gets rerouted back to it.
I have no .htaccess files in place, I have tried adding an alias and entries in the conf file and I have checked ownership and permissions. I have gone as far as wiping the machine and starting with the same results.
I feel like it is going to be a case of missing something simple but I cannot think of what. The log files have indicated that an IP tried to access the subdirectory but shows no error in doing so. When typed into the URL the /Directory/Index.html shows in the address bar but it displays the home page.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Most likely the issue is contained either in your apache.conf file or your firewall. I would have a good look at your apache.conf to see if there is anything restricting access to your sub-directories.
if you want to use default http port (80), so long story short www.abc.com without explicit port number, you must allow this on your server because 80 is privileged on most system, this could be a problem
I've just finished moving a Wordpress site to a new server. The domain has not changed, nor has the directory that Wordpress is installed in; the only thing that has changed is the machine it happens to be on.
The only problem I seem to have had as a result is that my permalinks aren't working, and when I go into the permalink settings, it claims that my .htaccess is unwrittable. For testing sake my .htaccess is currently CHMOD777, so it definitely is.
Any suggestions?
I have experienced problems in changing file permissions through FTP sometimes; CPanel always works. So try doing it from your host's control panel.
If that doesn't work, try editing .htaccess file manually. Follow this link to learn how to.
Your files may be 'owned' by a different user, especially if your hosting provider moved the files for you or if you used a script. If you continue to have problems, ask your hosting provider to check if the owner and permissions are set correctly on the files.
The permalinks themselves aren't working, i.e. the rules already in the .htaccess file from the previous server aren't taking effect. Mod rewrite, header and expire weren't installed. If a moderator wants to delete this silly question please feel free.