I had a domain that had been inactive for several years (as far as a web page
is concerned, it still received email and some other services). I went to
enable the domain by uncommenting it’s host block, and it did not work.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.thedomain.tld
ServerAlias thedomain.tld
DocumentRoot /home/kris/www/thedomain.tld/wordpress
</VirtualHost>
In order to get the domain to load, I had to add a directory clause:
<Directory /home/kris/www/thedomain.tld>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Of course, I did this for the domains that were active when I switched to
Apache 2.4, but it occurs to me that I *should* be able to specify the
directory settings for both /www/* and /home/*/www/* in the http.conf file as I
did in the old ancient versions of apache.
So I tried it:
<Directory "/usr/local/www">
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +Includes
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
(/www/ is a link to /usr/local/www)
But no, it doesn’t work. If I create a new folder “fred” and put an index.html
file in it, apache will not access it unless I put a specific directory clause
for that new folder.
In fact, it will not even access www.mydomain.tld/fred/index.html even though
the folder and files are world readable. All I get is a Forbidden error.
On the one hand, the few domains that are hosted are working, but on the other
hand, boy this is annoying and I don’t know what I am missing.
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