[GRLUG] Strange behavior with /var/www/html/

[Grand Rapids Linux Users Group]

Apache access log only indicates "404."

Nothing in the Apache error log for today.

It's probably one of those mysteries I have to live with.

Thanks anyway.

On 11/2/22 19:45, Grand Rapids Linux Users Group wrote:
> What web server: nginx, apache, other?
> What do the logs say?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 4:43 PM Grand Rapids Linux Users Group 
> <grlug at grlug.org> wrote:
>
>     It's not permissions. Nearly all are 777 for some reason and the
>     inconsistent behavior also happens with the few that are 553 or 533.
>
>     It's not ownership. All are owned by "Me."
>
>     Web-server is clearly listening on localhost. Is there any reason
>     it would have to listen on 127.0.0.1 for just certain files (which
>     are coded exactly like the others)? How would subnet restrictions
>     or re-writes affect some of the files in /var/www/html but not others?
>
>     In any case, why would opening them from the file directory then
>     make it possible to open from the webbrowser?
>
>
>     On 11/2/22 18:00, Grand Rapids Linux Users Group wrote:
>>     Could be many things.. file permissions, file ownership
>>     (www-data).  Also could be, depending upon the type of
>>     web-server, maybe it's only listening on localhost? 127.0.0.1? or
>>     maybe there are subnet restrictions or re-writes in the config file?
>>
>>     On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 5:49 PM Grand Rapids Linux Users Group
>>     <grlug at grlug.org> wrote:
>>
>>         I've got a new computer with Ubuntu 20.04.
>>
>>         Some of the files in my /var/www/html directory behave funny.
>>         Many open fine in response to localhost/file.html or to
>>         localhost/ericbeversluis, where ericbeversluis is, eg, a WP
>>         site on my computer.
>>
>>         But some of the individual files behave strangely. When I try
>>         to open them I get a 404, "Requested URL was not found on
>>         this server."
>>
>>         I can't tell any difference between those that open and those
>>         that don't. To further confuse me, when I click on the file
>>         in the file browser, they open nicely in Firefox--as
>>         file:///var/www/html/file.html. After that happens some then
>>         open nicely in response to localhost/file.html.
>>
>>         Many of the file have traveled from an old Fedora box to the
>>         webserver on a Macbook Pro to this new box. But that history
>>         doesn't seem to correlate with the different behaviors.
>>
>>         Any insight into what's going on here?
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Eric Beversluis www.ericbeversluis.com
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>>         Father/
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>>
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