RE: [users@httpd] Apache 2.0.54 randomly fails to serve index.html for single domainon multi-host server

[Boyle Owen <Ow...@swx.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Leavitt [mailto:thomas@thomasleavitt.org]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2006 16:09
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: [users@httpd] Apache 2.0.54 randomly fails to serve 
> index.html
> for single domainon multi-host server
> 
> 
> I asked this before, with no response, so I'm rephrasing the question:
> 
> Environment:
> 
> Apache/2.0.54 (Mandriva Linux/PREFORK-13.1.20060mdk)
> mod_auth_external/2.2.9 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7g PHP/5.1.0RC1
> 
> Mandriva 2006, Pentium III dual processor system, SMP kernal, 768 mb
> memory, ext3 filesystem... can supply any other information desired.
> 
> Using virtual hosting, with a fairly "stock" set up, via individual
> files in vhosts.d (about 100 or so different sites)
> 
> Here's the problem:
> 
> Periodically, I get calls from my clients, and/or web site visitors,
> telling me that "their site is gone"... inevitably, when I 
> look, what I
> see is a directory listing.

If you have commented out all "DirectoryIndex" directives then apache falls back to the default "index.html". If the client then edits their site and - somehow - renames index.html to index.htm then apache will not find the index file and so will list the directory.

Double-triple check that users are not using some helpful editor that renames the index file....

As a fix for the future (since you'll never get them to stop it), actually start *using* the DirectoryIndex directive. It can take a list of names, eg:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. 

> 
> Now, this isn't because index.html has been munged... because it is
> there. It just isn't being served by the web server as the 
> default home
> page.
> 
> This problem is, as far as I can tell, always confined to a single
> domain, and is consistent (as long as it lasts), i.e., 100 attempts to
> load the site produce 100 directory listings.
> 
> What isn't consistent, is that it goes away after a few days (haven't
> retested any one domain long enough to see how long)... and 
> usually pops
> up on another domain (had the problem reported a half dozen times over
> the past few months).
> 
> Nothing I've done seems to make it go away - I removed a bunch of
> modules that I wasn't really using, in case there was some odd "side
> effect". I played around with the order of the DirectoryIndex 
> listing. I
> commented out the DirectoryIndex item in the php apache config file...
> tried every trick I could think of; nothing works. Which is why I'm
> asking (again) here for advice.
> 
> What does "fix" the problem, is symlinking index.htm to index.html ...
> no idea why the problem doesn't display itself with 
> index.htm, but that
> seems to "cure" it. Rather reluctant to symlink every damned 
> instance of
> index.html to an equivalent index.htm, but it looks like I 
> might need to
> do that if I can't solve the problem otherwise.
> 
> Tips? Pointers? Help?!?
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas Leavitt
> Systems Admin
> Godmoma's Forge, LLC
> 831-295-3917
> http://www.godmomasforge.com/
> 
> 
> 
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