PHP, Apache and Desktop program links opening as text?

[Andrew Mathenge]

Looks like volksman is right geo.

Your DocumentRoot is changed so nothing in /var/www is accessible. I
would suggest changing the DocumentRoot back to /var/www and then when
you want to access Joomla! you have to add the directory name. In your
case, http://georutkay.homelinux.org/joomla.

Andrew.

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:46 AM, volksman <v0lksman69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can't sleep...hope this helps...
>
> Looks like you changed your "DocumentRoot" to /var/www/Joomla/ which
> means that is where the web server now starts it's serving path.  So
> /var/www/test.php will never be served.  As far as the web server is
> concerned it doesn't exist for public consumption.
>
> You have two options:
>
> 1) You will need to change the apache default config you have below and
> remove Joomla from it.  This means that http://georutkay.homelinux.org
> will not respond with Joomla.  You will need to add the /Joomla to get
> there.
> 2) Keep it the way it is and know that your Document root for your web
> server is /var/www/Joomla (not /var/www), so anything you want web
> accessible resides under that directory.
>
> Happy Canada Day (45 minutes too late... :) )
>
> geo wrote:
>> Permissions on that file as well as all other files and subdirectories, I've set them to be read-only for all others.
>>
>> Joomla seems to have taken over as my web root. Is this something that I would identify in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default?
>>
>> This is what is in my /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file and I was trying to get Joomla to show up when I type: http://georutkay.homelinux.org
>>
>> But I still expected directories OUT of the Joomla directory to remain accessible - these all fail to remain accessible once outside of Joomla and I end up with error messages that the link is outdated (or to that effect):
>>
>> NameVirtualHost *
>> <VirtualHost *>
>>       ServerAdmin webmaster at localhost
>>
>>       DocumentRoot /var/www/Joomla/
>>       <Directory />
>>               Options FollowSymLinks
>>               AllowOverride none
>>       </Directory>
>>       <Directory /var/www/Joomla/>
>>               Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>>               AllowOverride all
>>               Order allow,deny
>>               allow from all
>>       </Directory>
>>
>>       ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
>>       <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
>>               AllowOverride All
>>               Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
>>               Order allow,deny
>>               Allow from all
>>       </Directory>
>>
>>       ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
>>
>>       # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
>>       # alert, emerg.
>>       LogLevel warn
>>
>>       CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
>>       ServerSignature On
>>
>>     Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
>>     <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
>>         Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
>>         AllowOverride None
>>         Order deny,allow
>>         Deny from all
>>         Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
>>     </Directory>
>>
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Tue, 7/1/08, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: PHP, Apache and Desktop program links opening as text?
>> To: yaktur at yahoo.com, "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Cc: robitaille at gmail.com
>> Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 11:07 PM
>>
>> Interesting. Your Joomla! installation is working so your PHP/MySQL
>> and Apache install is fine. You might be onto something suspecting
>> file/folder permissions.
>>
>> What are the permissions set on the file /var/www/test.php?
>>
>> Also, who is running the apache2 service? Does it have access to that file?
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:19 PM, geo <yaktur at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I ended up wiping the drive, reformatting everything (still 2 partitions)
>>> and reinstalling the system again. :( That seemed to be the only way.
>>>
>>> First I tried to just delete user accounts, then reformat the larger
>>> partition. Fortunately my backup is only 2 days old.
>>>
>>> But that made things only worse! I couldn't redo the accounts properly
>>>
>> on
>>
>>> the system - and it didn't make any sense. The problem got so bad I
>>>
>> could
>>
>>> only boot in command-line mode and then when I commanded the system to
>>> restart (or reboot, whichever it is), then it went to the graphical login
>>> screen!
>>>
>>> I know I repartitioned and reformatted before. I don't know what went
>>>
>> wrong.
>>
>>> Funny, this time 8.04 worked! I was curious so I gave it one more try. The
>>> self-check on the CD said it was ok. So I tried to reinstall 8.04 and this
>>> time it worked.
>>>
>>> The only glitch was that from my initial account it wouldn't let me
>>>
>> access
>>
>>> System/Administration/Login window.
>>>
>>> To do changes to the login window as I prefer them, I ended up going into
>>> terminal window, typing "su" and entering the password I already
>>>
>> assigned
>>
>>> the super user.
>>>
>>> Then I typed into the terminal window "gksu /usr/sbin/gdmsetup"
>>>
>> (which I
>>
>>> copied out of the Login Window when I got properties on it).
>>>
>>> Then that allowed me to change things about the login window so I can
>>>
>> login
>>
>>> as root through the same login window and not have to waste time doing
>>>
>> that
>>
>>> silly rebooting nonsense into recovery mode.
>>>
>>> But now when I go to set up my web server stuff, I follow the exact same
>>> instructions that I printed out when I got 7.10 working with PHP, Apache
>>>
>> and
>>
>>> MySQL....and I'm getting lousy performance.
>>>
>>> http://georutkay.homelinux.org/test.php doesn't work, it claims it
>>>
>> can't
>>
>>> find the file but I know that's baloney - it's right there:
>>> /var/www/test.php
>>>
>>> Also I can't see my subdirectories.
>>>
>> http://georutkay.homelinux.org/Projects/
>>
>>> should lead me to two further subdirectories which I know exist in
>>>
>> /var/www/
>>
>>> I get the same results if I use http://localhost instead of
>>> http://georutkay.homelinux.org
>>>
>>> The subdirectories are not being shown and I don't know why. I have
>>> permissions set to read only for /var/www but even when I tried and set it
>>> to read-write, it still didn't make any difference!
>>>
>>> Help?
>>>
>>> geo
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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