Basic Apache configuration - 500 Internal Server Error

[Vieri Di Paola <vi...@yahoo.com>]

I'm having trouble accessing the default /var/www/html/index.shtml. With 
Netscape Navigator, I get an Internal Server Error when I issue 
"127.0.0.1" or "localhost". Also, since I don't have a static IP, each 
time I connect via PPP to my ISP, I save my dynamic local IP number. 
When I insert my local IP in the Netscape browser, the same 500 Internal 
Server Error page comes up.

The only service that works fine for me is ssh. I can log in either with 
"ssh localhost" or "ssh <myDynamicLocalIP>" (once connected).

I'm using Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.20 bundled with Mandrake 
Linux 8.1. The Bastille-firewall is disabled.

/var/log/httpd/error_log contains:

[Thu Jan 31 00:53:04 2002] [info] created shared memory segment #851973
[Thu Jan 31 00:53:04 2002] [notice] Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.20 
(Mandrake Linux/3mdk) mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.0.6 configured 
-- resuming normal operations
[Thu Jan 31 00:53:04 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: 
/usr/sbin/suexec)
[Thu Jan 31 00:53:04 2002] [info] Server built: Aug 24 2001 17:59:56

hostname is 'localhost.localdomain'.

/etc/hosts contains:

127.0.0.1 
localhost.localdomain 
localhost

/etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny are blank.

/etc/networks contains:

loopback 
127.0.0.0
localnet 
0.0.0.0

/etc/resolv.conf contains my ISP's nameserver address.

Relevant parts of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf are:

Port 80
ServerName localhost
Options ExecCgi
ServerType standalone
ServerRoot /etc/httpd
#LockFile /etc/httpd/httpd.lock
PidFile /var/run/httpd.pid
ScoreBoardFile /etc/httpd/httpd.scoreboard
LogLevel debug
ResourceConfig /dev/null
AccessConfig /dev/null

Relevant parts of /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf are:

#User apache
#Group apache
User nobody
Group nobody
ServerAdmin root@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
<Directory />
Options  followSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Ifmodule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi 
index.pl index.htm Default.htm default.htm
</Ifmodule>
AccessFileName .htaccess
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
<Directory /var/www/html>
Options  indexes  followSymLinks  multiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any
</Directory>
<Location /index.shtml>
Options  +includes
Satisfy any
</Location>

I've searched google and the Apache documentation but haven't 
encountered any information regarding this particular situation.

Any suggestions?

Regards,

Vieri




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