boo_lolly Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 i recently installed apache2 on my linux(gentoo) box. i didn't get any errors during the build process, but for some reason apache won't process any webpages. all it does is show the html syntax. what could be causing this? when i go to: http://localhost/ i only see syntax in my browser <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Test Page for Apache Installation</title> </head> <!-- Background white, links blue (unvisited), navy (visited), red (active) --> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#000080" alink="#FF0000"> <p>If you can see this, it means that the installation of the <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/preFAQ.html">Apache web server</a> software on this system was successful. You may now add content to this directory and replace this page.</p> <hr width="50%" size="8" /> <h2 align="center">Seeing this instead of the website you expected?</h2> <p>This page is here because the site administrator has changed the configuration of this web server. Please <strong>contact the person responsible for maintaining this server with questions.</strong> The Apache Software Foundation, which wrote the web server software this site administrator is using, has nothing to do with maintaining this site and cannot help resolve configuration issues.</p> <hr width="50%" size="8" /> <p>The Apache <a href="manual/">documentation</a> has been included with this distribution.</p> <p>You are free to use the image below on an Apache-powered web server. Thanks for using Apache!</p> <div align="center"><img src="apache_pb.gif" alt="" /></div> </body> </html> has anyone had this problem before? where do i go from here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfmason Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 hmm... Try SetHandler default-handler or AddHandler default-handler .html .htm ext. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo_lolly Posted August 23, 2007 Author Share Posted August 23, 2007 you know what happened? apache was installed correctly... but for some reason it didn't process webpages when i put in http://localhost/. it processed webpages when i put in http://127.0.0.1/. what's weird is that before i installed apache, http://localhost brought me a page that said "SORRY PAGE NOT FOUND" in my browser. now, after i installed it, it just spits out the html syntax of the webpage, but doesn't process it correctly. and http://127.0.0.1 (which i THOUGHT was the same exact thing) processes webpages just fine. does anybody know why that is? where do i configure apache to simulate that IP into a name for this particular server (whatever i want it to be)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 What is the output of... cat /etc/hosts ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guardian-Mage Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 I had this problem as well, and I believe it is a problem with the httpd.conf file. Have you tried to edit it or modify it in any way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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