On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 03:42:24PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On 4/26/07, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As I understand it, apache2 uses "/etc/apache2/apache2.conf" as its main > >config file rather than "httpd.conf". I further understand that this file > >looks to other files for "virtual web servers", so I also need to consider > >the file "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default" (which symlinks to > >"/etc/apache2/sites-available/default". > > I finally realized that the way apache2 uses these "other files" is by > including them in the main "apache2.conf" file via an "include" directive. > > So I went back and looked in the main "apache2.conf" file for includes, and > found that it also includes *.conf files within the > "/etc/apache2/mods-enabled" directory. > > Within this directory I found a "dir.conf" file, which contains: > > <IfModule mod_dir.c> > DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml > </IfModule> > > Making the assumption that this line tells apache2 which files to load by > default within a directory, I added "index.shtml" to the end of this > "DirectoryIndex" line. I then restarted apache2, and boom, the page now > loads properly. > > My questions, should anyone deign to respond: > > 1. Have I made correct assumptions about the way Apache 2 works, or have I > just discovered a way to make things seem to work?
I believe that your assumptions are correct.
> 2. Does the order of filenames matter in this "DirectoryIndex" line? For
> example, if a directory has both an "index.html" and an "index.shtml", will
> apache2 load the one that is listed first in this line and ignore the
> second, or is this determined in some other manner?
See
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex
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