I wasn't aware of this, and it is kind of funny; when you name a directory icons in the root of your host, then if you point your browser to host.com/icons, apache does not read from that directory and shows you a listing of Public Domain Icons.
I added an icons directory to the root and placed a key.png file in that directory, yet accessing that image results in 404. I tried to find if/where this has been documented and how it could be turned off. I found nothing. Could someone provide a pointer?
P.S. I am using XAMPP 1.7.3 which basically is a WAMP and has Apache 2.2.14
Edit
Aparently lots of live servers have this turned on and index of /icons could be seen lots of places.
Open this file: %XAMPP_PATH%\apache\conf\extra\httpd-autoindex.conf
and change :
Alias /icons/ "X:/xampp/apache/icons/"
<Directory "X:/xampp/apache/icons/">
to this:
Alias /icons/ "./icons/"
<Directory "./icons/">
Restart your Apache Server.
I'd assume that you have an alias within your httpd.conf.
I'm not familiar with XAMPP's config files or their location (google suggests it's probably in \xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf) but I'd suggest you're looking for a line like the following:
Alias /icons/ /usr/local/apache/icons/
See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_alias.html for more info.
EDIT:
According to XMAPP site, you need to check \xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf and the extra subfolder.
I would look in either your apache config file (\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf) or your .htaccess files and see if there is a redirect going on.
EDIT: I think Grhm is correct in that an Alias is in your config file somewhere, per the XAMPP site:
The main configuration file for Apache. It's including other files from the subdirectory "extra".
See if there is a directory called extra in the \xampp\apache\conf\ directory and then go through the files in there and see if that Alias is present.
Related
I have a website url that looks something like this: www.test.com/folder1/test.html
If I change the url to www.test.com/folder1 I can see all the files and folders parallel to folder1. I don't want people to be able to do this and see these folders and files. How can I block access to this?
Please change the document root. The file is located at /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf if you use Ubuntu.
You need to turn off the Indexes option. You can do it in a .htaccess file for a directory, in the configuration file for the site in a <Directory> section, or the global configuration httpd.conf.
Options -Indexes
This will prevent the server from generating an navigable index of files.
Full documentation is here:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#options
I recently installed XAMPP. I notice that when I type 'localhost' in the address bar of my browser, it shows a nice XAMPP welcome page. But I wish I could figure out how to show a directory of files and folders in my htdocs. I've seen this work on my old stack - 'parent directory', etc.
I've been digging around my httpd.conf file, and have found things on Google about AllowOverride, etc. Other sources say I should write a .htaccess file, but I can't get clarity on how to tweek my settings somehow to make this work.
Thanks!
Turn on your directory listing in apache configuration filehttpd.conf
For example if you projects are in /var/www/html, edit httpd.conf to add
<Directory /var/www/html >
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>
Following this, restart the httpd service
I am about to start learning Apache. All resources I am looking into, mention either php.ini, or .htaccess or httpd.conf files for setting configurations and stuff. But none of them are clear on the difference between these 3 files. Can anyone explain the difference and their usage?
httpd.conf (it can actually be named differently on some platforms, but that's the default) is the master configuration file for Apache. You can use Include statements to pull in external configuration files. httpd.conf is read in when Apache starts or if you run a 'reload'.
.htaccss is a per-directory configuration file for Apache. You can enable or disable the use of .htaccess files in your httpd.conf file. Where possible its been recommended to me to turn .htaccess use off, as Apache will check the file every time a request causes it to read the directory.
PHP is, as you probably know, separate from Apache, although often used with it. php.ini is the configuration file for the PHP engine.
Every daemon or application has it's own configuration files. On linux these are often located in the /etc directory. You will have to learn to edit each one according to the program. the /etc/php5/php.ini is different from the /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and so on.
Think of them like different types of files. a Word document is not the same as a JPEG Image or a AVI video.
The PHP.ini controls PHP's settings
The .htaccess controls apache settings for a given folder (and all child folders)
The httpd.conf controls apache's settings.
php.ini is a configuration file where you specify options for things
related specifically to php, for instance CURL
.htaccess is where you specify options for URI routing and folders
options on your server
httpd.conf is a configuration file where you specify options for
things related specifically to apache
I recently installed apache2 on ubuntu but I have a problem, my httpd.conf is empty. Can someone give me a clean copy of httpd.conf for apache2 on ubuntu?
Thanks!
Edit: I saw your answers but on wampserver httpd.conf is not empty and as you mentioned it is for user options. SO what should I do?
Edit2 : That's what I got on my apache2.conf, how I add modules, enable gzip and all of that?
[Deleted the contents, as they render the question unreadable and are useless, because that were the default Apache2 configuration under Ubuntu.]
The /etc/apache2/httpd.conf is empty in Ubuntu, because the Apache configuration resides in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf!
“httpd.conf is for user options.” No it isn't, it's there for historic reasons.
Using Apache server, all user options should go into a new *.conf-file inside /etc/apache2/conf.d/. This method should be "update-safe", as httpd.conf or apache2.conf may get overwritten on the next server update.
Inside /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, you will find the following line, which includes those files:
# Include generic snippets of statements
Include conf.d/
As of Apache 2.4+ the user configuration directory is /etc/apache2/conf-available/. Use a2enconf FILENAME_WITHOUT_SUFFIX to enable the new configuration file or manually create a symlink in /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/. Be aware that as of Apache 2.4 the configuration files must have the suffix .conf (e.g. conf-available/my-settings.conf);
It's empty by default. You'll find a bunch of settings in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.
In there it does this:
# Include all the user configurations:
Include httpd.conf
OK - what you're missing is that its designed to be more industrial and serve many sites, so the config you want is probably:
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default
which on my system is linked to from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
if you want to have different sites with different options, copy the file and then change those...
It seems to me, that it is by design that this file is empty.
A similar question has been asked here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2567432/ubuntu-apache-httpd-conf-or-apache2-conf
So, you should have a look for /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
I have an Apache server installed on my windows machine using XAMPP. Now I'm trying to use a premade .htaccess file for one of my projects, but it doesn't seem to be seeing it. The project just totally ignores it, even though I've enabled mod_rewrite.
Any idea how I can troubleshoot this? I can't fix it if it just doesn't work and doesn't show me any errors.
Appreciate your help.
In your httpd.conf file, you must enable .htaccess overriding with AllowOverride for the directory where the .htaccess file is (or parent thereof). If it is set to 'None', the .htaccess files will be ignored.