Localhost question

[stalo]

Hi all

I am new to Apache and this is a college project so your help will be appreciated.

I have installed Apache and now whenever I write

http://localhost

or

http://127.0.0.1

the small web page I designed should be displayed. I have made some modifications to the configuration file which is tested correctly but I cannot see my web. This is what I wrote:

NameVirtualHost *:80

#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
# i changed the first three line of the following
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin csavva@dits.mof.gov.cy
DocumentRoot "c:\My Family\index.html"
# ServerName

http://www.stalo.net

ServerName localhost
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

My page start with index.html and is located at c:\My family folder.

Can someone help me please?

Thanks
Stalo

 

[sedj]

One problem is that this line :

DocumentRoot "c:\My Family\index.html"

should be :

DocumentRoot "c:\My Family"

You may, or may not, have problems with the spaces ...

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[stalo]

OK, until this point the conf is without errors but still nothing. if i put

http://localhost

on my browser it says it the page cannot be displayed. How do I make it to start with index.htm which is my starting page?

 

[ericbrunson]

Do you have a line like this in your config?

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm

 

[Wishdiak]

stalo,

After making any changes to your httpd.conf, you should restart Apache so that it reloads the configuration.

If you have
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
and
DocumentRoot "c:\My Family"
in your httpd.conf and reloading the configuration doesn't work, then the issue is probably with the space in the directory name.

If you continue having issues, please post the test of the error message from your browser and Apache error log.

Wishdiak

http://www.wishdiak.com