It was a request for information

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 1:50 PM Marc Deslauriers <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and we
> are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it
> would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker.
> Please visit https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
>
> ** Information type changed from Private Security to Public
>
> ** Changed in: apache2 (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Invalid
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1848222
>
> Title:
>   spam folder
>
> Status in apache2 package in Ubuntu:
>   Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>   I have an account with Google Mail
>   [https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/], whereas, I regularly receive post
>   destined for  my spam folder, that appears to originate from
>   incompletely configured websites, at times running Debian releases.
>
>   Do you have any specific proposals at the technical level to help me
>   script some controls?
>
>   Google has an online account manager
>   [https://support.google.com/a/answer/182076?hl=en], no source code is
>   available so I cannot comment further on its logic.
>
>   A common observation on websites is the lack of a splash page instead
>   of a 404 error as defined by W3C Standards.
>
>   Here is a sample of an attachment files I receive, that seem to be
>   attached to emails instead of using a complete web page rolled out to
>   a web server, this is thought to be an error of the web administrator
>   and I would like a way to trace them back so I can advise them to fix
>   these configuration issues to start with.
>
>   --
>
>
>   <!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";>
>     <!--
>       Modified from the Debian original for Ubuntu
>       Last updated: 2016-11-16
>       See: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1288690
>     -->
>     <head>
>       <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
>       <title>Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page: It works</title>
>       <style type="text/css" media="screen">
>     * {
>       margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
>       padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
>     }
>
>     body, html {
>       padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px;
>
>       background-color: #D8DBE2;
>
>       font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
>       font-size: 11pt;
>       text-align: center;
>     }
>
>     div.main_page {
>       position: relative;
>       display: table;
>
>       width: 800px;
>
>       margin-bottom: 3px;
>       margin-left: auto;
>       margin-right: auto;
>       padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
>
>       border-width: 2px;
>       border-color: #212738;
>       border-style: solid;
>
>       background-color: #FFFFFF;
>
>       text-align: center;
>     }
>
>     div.page_header {
>       height: 99px;
>       width: 100%;
>
>       background-color: #F5F6F7;
>     }
>
>     div.page_header span {
>       margin: 15px 0px 0px 50px;
>
>       font-size: 180%;
>       font-weight: bold;
>     }
>
>     div.page_header img {
>       margin: 3px 0px 0px 40px;
>
>       border: 0px 0px 0px;
>     }
>
>     div.table_of_contents {
>       clear: left;
>
>       min-width: 200px;
>
>       margin: 3px 3px 3px 3px;
>
>       background-color: #FFFFFF;
>
>       text-align: left;
>     }
>
>     div.table_of_contents_item {
>       clear: left;
>
>       width: 100%;
>
>       margin: 4px 0px 0px 0px;
>
>       background-color: #FFFFFF;
>
>       color: #000000;
>       text-align: left;
>     }
>
>     div.table_of_contents_item a {
>       margin: 6px 0px 0px 6px;
>     }
>
>     div.content_section {
>       margin: 3px 3px 3px 3px;
>
>       background-color: #FFFFFF;
>
>       text-align: left;
>     }
>
>     div.content_section_text {
>       padding: 4px 8px 4px 8px;
>
>       color: #000000;
>       font-size: 100%;
>     }
>
>     div.content_section_text pre {
>       margin: 8px 0px 8px 0px;
>       padding: 8px 8px 8px 8px;
>
>       border-width: 1px;
>       border-style: dotted;
>       border-color: #000000;
>
>       background-color: #F5F6F7;
>
>       font-style: italic;
>     }
>
>     div.content_section_text p {
>       margin-bottom: 6px;
>     }
>
>     div.content_section_text ul, div.content_section_text li {
>       padding: 4px 8px 4px 16px;
>     }
>
>     div.section_header {
>       padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px;
>
>       background-color: #8E9CB2;
>
>       color: #FFFFFF;
>       font-weight: bold;
>       font-size: 112%;
>       text-align: center;
>     }
>
>     div.section_header_red {
>       background-color: #CD214F;
>     }
>
>     div.section_header_grey {
>       background-color: #9F9386;
>     }
>
>     .floating_element {
>       position: relative;
>       float: left;
>     }
>
>     div.table_of_contents_item a,
>     div.content_section_text a {
>       text-decoration: none;
>       font-weight: bold;
>     }
>
>     div.table_of_contents_item a:link,
>     div.table_of_contents_item a:visited,
>     div.table_of_contents_item a:active {
>       color: #000000;
>     }
>
>     div.table_of_contents_item a:hover {
>       background-color: #000000;
>
>       color: #FFFFFF;
>     }
>
>     div.content_section_text a:link,
>     div.content_section_text a:visited,
>      div.content_section_text a:active {
>       background-color: #DCDFE6;
>
>       color: #000000;
>     }
>
>     div.content_section_text a:hover {
>       background-color: #000000;
>
>       color: #DCDFE6;
>     }
>
>     div.validator {
>     }
>       </style>
>     </head>
>     <body>
>       <div class="main_page">
>         <div class="page_header floating_element">
>           <img src="/icons/ubuntu-logo.png" alt="Ubuntu Logo"
> class="floating_element"/>
>           <span class="floating_element">
>             Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page
>           </span>
>         </div>
>   <!--      <div class="table_of_contents floating_element">
>           <div class="section_header section_header_grey">
>             TABLE OF CONTENTS
>           </div>
>           <div class="table_of_contents_item floating_element">
>             <a href="#about">About</a>
>           </div>
>           <div class="table_of_contents_item floating_element">
>             <a href="#changes">Changes</a>
>           </div>
>           <div class="table_of_contents_item floating_element">
>             <a href="#scope">Scope</a>
>           </div>
>           <div class="table_of_contents_item floating_element">
>             <a href="#files">Config files</a>
>           </div>
>         </div>
>   -->
>         <div class="content_section floating_element">
>
>
>           <div class="section_header section_header_red">
>             <div id="about"></div>
>             It works!
>           </div>
>           <div class="content_section_text">
>             <p>
>                   This is the default welcome page used to test the
> correct
>                   operation of the Apache2 server after installation on
> Ubuntu systems.
>                   It is based on the equivalent page on Debian, from which
> the Ubuntu Apache
>                   packaging is derived.
>                   If you can read this page, it means that the Apache HTTP
> server installed at
>                   this site is working properly. You should <b>replace
> this file</b> (located at
>                   <tt>/var/www/html/index.html</tt>) before continuing to
> operate your HTTP server.
>             </p>
>
>
>             <p>
>                   If you are a normal user of this web site and don't know
> what this page is
>                   about, this probably means that the site is currently
> unavailable due to
>                   maintenance.
>                   If the problem persists, please contact the site's
> administrator.
>             </p>
>
>           </div>
>           <div class="section_header">
>             <div id="changes"></div>
>                   Configuration Overview
>           </div>
>           <div class="content_section_text">
>             <p>
>                   Ubuntu's Apache2 default configuration is different from
> the
>                   upstream default configuration, and split into several
> files optimized for
>                   interaction with Ubuntu tools. The configuration system
> is
>                   <b>fully documented in
>                   /usr/share/doc/apache2/README.Debian.gz</b>. Refer to
> this for the full
>                   documentation. Documentation for the web server itself
> can be
>                   found by accessing the <a href="/manual">manual</a> if
> the <tt>apache2-doc</tt>
>                   package was installed on this server.
>
>             </p>
>             <p>
>                   The configuration layout for an Apache2 web server
> installation on Ubuntu systems is as follows:
>             </p>
>             <pre>
>   /etc/apache2/
>   |-- apache2.conf
>   |       `--  ports.conf
>   |-- mods-enabled
>   |       |-- *.load
>   |       `-- *.conf
>   |-- conf-enabled
>   |       `-- *.conf
>   |-- sites-enabled
>   |       `-- *.conf
>             </pre>
>             <ul>
>                           <li>
>                              <tt>apache2.conf</tt> is the main
> configuration
>                              file. It puts the pieces together by
> including all remaining configuration
>                              files when starting up the web server.
>                           </li>
>
>                           <li>
>                              <tt>ports.conf</tt> is always included from
> the
>                              main configuration file. It is used to
> determine the listening ports for
>                              incoming connections, and this file can be
> customized anytime.
>                           </li>
>
>                           <li>
>                              Configuration files in the
> <tt>mods-enabled/</tt>,
>                              <tt>conf-enabled/</tt> and
> <tt>sites-enabled/</tt> directories contain
>                              particular configuration snippets which
> manage modules, global configuration
>                              fragments, or virtual host configurations,
> respectively.
>                           </li>
>
>                           <li>
>                              They are activated by symlinking available
>                              configuration files from their respective
>                              *-available/ counterparts. These should be
> managed
>                              by using our helpers
>                              <tt>
>                                   a2enmod,
>                                   a2dismod,
>                              </tt>
>                              <tt>
>                                   a2ensite,
>                                   a2dissite,
>                               </tt>
>                                   and
>                              <tt>
>                                   a2enconf,
>                                   a2disconf
>                              </tt>. See their respective man pages for
> detailed information.
>                           </li>
>
>                           <li>
>                              The binary is called apache2. Due to the use
> of
>                              environment variables, in the default
> configuration, apache2 needs to be
>                              started/stopped with
> <tt>/etc/init.d/apache2</tt> or <tt>apache2ctl</tt>.
>                              <b>Calling <tt>/usr/bin/apache2</tt> directly
> will not work</b> with the
>                              default configuration.
>                           </li>
>             </ul>
>           </div>
>
>           <div class="section_header">
>               <div id="docroot"></div>
>                   Document Roots
>           </div>
>
>           <div class="content_section_text">
>               <p>
>                   By default, Ubuntu does not allow access through the web
> browser to
>                   <em>any</em> file apart of those located in
> <tt>/var/www</tt>,
>                   <a href="
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_userdir.html";
> rel="nofollow">public_html</a>
>                   directories (when enabled) and <tt>/usr/share</tt> (for
> web
>                   applications). If your site is using a web document root
>                   located elsewhere (such as in <tt>/srv</tt>) you may
> need to whitelist your
>                   document root directory in
> <tt>/etc/apache2/apache2.conf</tt>.
>               </p>
>               <p>
>                   The default Ubuntu document root is
> <tt>/var/www/html</tt>. You
>                   can make your own virtual hosts under /var/www. This is
> different
>                   to previous releases which provides better security out
> of the box.
>               </p>
>           </div>
>
>           <div class="section_header">
>             <div id="bugs"></div>
>                   Reporting Problems
>           </div>
>           <div class="content_section_text">
>             <p>
>                   Please use the <tt>ubuntu-bug</tt> tool to report bugs
> in the
>                   Apache2 package with Ubuntu. However, check <a
>                   href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2";
>                   rel="nofollow">existing bug reports</a> before reporting
> a new bug.
>             </p>
>             <p>
>                   Please report bugs specific to modules (such as PHP and
> others)
>                   to respective packages, not to the web server itself.
>             </p>
>           </div>
>
>
>
>         </div>
>       </div>
>       <div class="validator">
>       </div>
>     </body>
>   </html>
>
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