Apache's Document Root?...

[VcDeveloper1]

I made some changes to .conf files to have DocumentRoot point to /home/user/NetBeansProjects/Drupal

but, I'm getting a:
[Mon Nov 02 19:55:14 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/drupal

Do I need to create vHost in order for Apache to point to this folder?

[buckesfeld]

* VcDeveloper1 wrote, On 11/04/2009 09:16 AM:
> I made some changes to .conf files to have DocumentRoot point to
> /home/user/NetBeansProjects/Drupal
>
> but, I'm getting a:
> [Mon Nov 02 19:55:14 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
> exist: /srv/www/htdocs/drupal

To me that looks like you didn't edit the configuration properly.

Uwe

[microchip8]

Modify mod_userdir.conf if you wanna serve pages from a user's home directory

[swerdna]

It's only necessary to change default-server.conf if you want to redefine the doc root. Then it's optional to create a virtual-server .conf file in vhosts.d. So which .conf files did you change and/or create? And can you post it/them here.

[ChrisTarq]

If you are still having trouble try using YaST which has a module that will let you add a virtual host

(I would undo any changes you made the conf related to document root etc as I found my manual changes aren't picked up by yast and it might cause some conflicts later on)

[VcDeveloper1]

Here's the only changes I made in httpd.conf, just doing a override of the default:

PHP Code:

Include /etc/apache2/default-server.conf
Include /etc/apache2/default-server-drupal.conf 


Here is my default-server-drupal.conf it's a copy of default-server.conf, but with changes:

PHP Code:

#
# Global configuration that will be applicable for all virtual hosts, unless
# deleted here, or overriden elswhere.
# 

DocumentRoot "/home/developer/NetBeansProjects/drupal"

#
# Configure the DocumentRoot
#
<Directory "/home/developer/NetBeansProjects/drupal">
    # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
    # or any combination of:
    #   Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
    #
    # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
    # doesn't give it to you.
    #
    # The Options directive is both complicated and important.  Please see
    # http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.2/mod/core.html#options
    # for more information.
    Options +Includes +Indexes +FollowSymLinks
    # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    AllowOverride All
    # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

    # Define your own file limitations on drupal files
    <FilesMatch "(install.php|cron.php|phpinfo.php|update.php|.txt)$">
        Order deny,allow
        Include conf/extra/httpd-ip.conf
        Deny from all
    </FilesMatch>
    
    <FilesMatch "robots.txt">
        Allow from all
    </FilesMatch>
    
    # Read in Drupal default .htaccess file asif conf - easier CVS management
    Include "/home/developer/NetBeansProjects/drupal/.htaccess"

</Directory>

# Sorry, no svn peeking
<DirectoryMatch ".svn">
    # Currently pointing back to drupal
    # High traffic sites might want custom
    # error pages, no need to load drupal
    ErrorDocument 403 /index.php
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy All
</DirectoryMatch>

# Allow the .htaccess files to be used in the sites folder where /files are stored
<Directory "/home/developer/NetBeansProjects/drupal/sites">
    AllowOverride
</Directory>

# Block off access to admin and devel - just in case you're using on production
# this is very strict because it's limited based on IP addresses
# adjust as needed
<LocationMatch "/(admin|devel)">
    Order deny,allow
    Include "/etc/apache2/httpd-ip.conf"
    Deny from all
</LocationMatch>

#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</IfModule>

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being 
# viewed by Web clients. 
#
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
#   Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>

# Aliases: aliases can be added as needed (with no limit). The format is 
# Alias fakename realname
#
# Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will
# require it to be present in the URL.  So "/icons" isn't aliased in this
# example, only "/icons/".  If the fakename is slash-terminated, then the 
# realname must also be slash terminated, and if the fakename omits the 
# trailing slash, the realname must also omit it.
#
# We include the /icons/ alias for FancyIndexed directory listings.  If you
# do not use FancyIndexing, you may comment this out.
#
Alias /icons/ "/usr/share/apache2/icons/"

<Directory "/usr/share/apache2/icons">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
# documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
# run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client.
# The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
# Alias.
#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/srv/www/cgi-bin/"

# "/srv/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
<Directory "/srv/www/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.
#
# To disable it, simply remove userdir from the list of modules in APACHE_MODULES 
# in /etc/sysconfig/apache2.
#
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    # Note that the name of the user directory ("public_html") cannot simply be
    # changed here, since it is a compile time setting. The apache package
    # would have to be rebuilt. You could work around by deleting
    # /usr/sbin/suexec, but then all scripts from the directories would be
    # executed with the UID of the webserver.
    UserDir public_html
    # The actual configuration of the directory is in
    # /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf.
    Include /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf
    # You can, however, change the ~ if you find it awkward, by mapping e.g.
    # http://www.example.com/users/karl-heinz/ --> /home/karl-heinz/public_html/ 
    #AliasMatch ^/users/([a-zA-Z0-9-_.]*)/?(.*) /home/$1/public_html/$2
</IfModule>


# Include all *.conf files from /etc/apache2/conf.d/.
#
# This is mostly meant as a place for other RPM packages to drop in their
# configuration snippet.
#
# You can comment this out here if you want those bits include only in a
# certain virtual host, but not here.
#
Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/*.conf

# The manual... if it is installed ('?' means it won't complain)
Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/apache2-manual?conf 


This is my development server, but to make things easy I would like my Production server to match what I do here. So what is the best way to setup Drupal.

I have it working fine on my Windows server, but changing over to Suse Linux. My development server is a Suse Linux as well as my Pruction Server which is a VirtualBox VM.

[microchip8]

By default, your default-server-drupal.conf won't be included. Better make virtual servers if you intend to run more than one server. Look in vhosts.d for an example file

[swerdna]

The existence of two default-server.conf files, named in this:

Include /etc/apache2/default-server.conf
Include /etc/apache2/default-server-drupal.conf

might give the error because you've "included" both files.

You should only have (one) default-server.conf in the directory /etc/apache2, and then put two vitual .conf files in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d, one each for the production and development servers.

Step 1: You modify default-server.conf to put the document root at /home/developer/NetBeansProjects

Step2: make a file developer.conf in vhosts.d for the development server located at /home/developer/NetBeansProjects/drupal_devel. The doc root in this .conf file is at ......./drupal_devel

Step3: make a file production.conf in vhosts.d for the production server located at /home/developer/NetBeansProjects/drupal_prod

Then you put the developer install of drupal into the directory drupal_devel and the production install of drupal into the directory drupal_prod. The doc root in this .conf file is at ......./drupal_prod

[swerdna]

For an example of default-server.conf and then subsidiary *.conf virtual server defs see this: HowTo: Configure a Linux Apache Web Server on Suse/openSUSE

[VcDeveloper1]

Thanks for your reply's, I will make the changes and get back with you!...