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

[thelma@sys-concept.com]

On 10/30/2020 11:55 AM, Michael wrote:
> On Friday, 30 October 2020 16:27:05 GMT thelma@sys-concept.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 :-/