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