danep Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Sorry for the somewhat obscure title, I don't know how to describe this problem succinctly. Basically, I run a "live" and "development" version of my website on my server using name-based virtual hosts, so example.com has DocumentRoot /var/www/live while dev.example.com has DocumentRoot /var/www/dev. I can get to both websites fine from other machines. However, if I use Lynx or Curl on the server to try to get to example.com, I get the directory listing for /var/www instead. Does anybody know why that might be? Let me know if you would like me to post Apache config files. I appreciate the help, this has been driving me absolutely nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danep Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 Ah, I think I solved part of it... I was only editing httpd.conf to do virtual hosting. What I didn't realize was that there was a default configuration file loaded in sites-enabled that had a virtual host with DocumentRoot /var/www. I changed this default virtual host DocumentRoot to /var/www/live and the problem is solved. However, I still don't understand why the problem existed in the first place- i.e., why everything worked when browsing from another machine but not when using Lynx from the local machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.