how to change the default page of apache from index.htm to default.htm

sourin · #1 14th December 2005, 12:45 PM

Hi all!
The IP of my system is 10.16.3.16
On accessing this ip from a browser I get the apache test page. I want a default.htm file to be displayed which is stored in the var/www/html folder. I know that by default it searches for the index.html file but i want it to search for my default.htm
How should i do that ???

Also, i would like to know how to turn off directory listing on FC4

Thanks in advance...

Zigzagcom · #2 14th December 2005, 01:46 PM

Go to the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and edit under Section 2: 'Main' server configuration (it's quite a bit down the file), so that the line starting with DirectoryIndex reads:

Quote:

#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
# The index.html.var file (a type-map) is used to deliver content-
# negotiated documents. The MultiViews Option can be used for the
# same purpose, but it is much slower.
#
DirectoryIndex default.htm index.html index.html.var

Save and close the file, then restart Apache (httpd) so it can re-read the configuration file. Make sure, that you have set the correct permissions for default.htm, i.e., 644 or -rw-r--r--.

Zigzagcom · #3 14th December 2005, 01:58 PM

The index listing is on by default, so you have to edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for that as well...scroll down to the section below and remove the keyword "Indexes" from the line that is highlighted in red:

Quote:

# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

#
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.
#

#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory "/var/www/html">

#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options
# for more information.
#
#Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

Save and close, restart Apache.

foobar47 · #4 14th December 2005, 04:17 PM

Hy,

or redirect to the default.html file in the index.html file... not really usefull, less than httpd.conf file

you do that by editing index.html like that :
<html>
<head>
<META http-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; url=http://yoursite.com/default.html">
</head>
</html>

sourin · #5 15th December 2005, 09:05 AM

Thanks everyone. I had made the changes in the httpd.conf file but did not restart the httpd service which is why the changes were not visible to me.

But now I have got one more problem...

When I transfered my files from windows via cd burned by nero, all my files were named in capital letters but FC4 I think is case sensitive. It is not processing the files even though with the same name but difference in letter case.

I was stupid to have deleted the original files as soon as i had written them on the cd.

Isnt there any way to force linux to treat the files witouh being case sensitive as otherwise i will then have to rename around a thousand files which is going to a very painful job ????

Zigzagcom · #6 15th December 2005, 10:22 AM

Sourin, I cannot help you with this one. Another problem will be that folks with that kind of expertise might not see this post, because the title of this thread is not relevant to your last question...
try starting a new thread with a more appropriate title.

this213 · #7 16th December 2005, 04:08 PM

1. cd to the directory containing the directory that holds all of the files you want to convert to lower case.

2. enter

Code:

vi chcase.pl

3. hit escape twice, then the letter "i"

4. copy the script here and paste it into your terminal window (where you have vi opened): http://www.semitekie.com/viewtopic.php?p=11

5: in vi again, hit esc twice then type :wq!

6. enter

Code:

chmod 700 chcase.pl

7. enter

Code:

./chcase -r -d NAME_OF_DIRECTORY

change NAME_OF_DIRECTORY to match the name of the folder which holds all of the files you want to make lowercase.