error 404 when viewing localhost site

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error 404 when viewing localhost site

Hi there I am ttrying to use the normal apache server that comes with mac, I recently put a site into my "sites" folder and tried to view it using my ip 192.168.1.34/~username/ but all I get is error 404 can't locate the URL on this server, when I load localhost I still get the apache page. It worked fine before until I loaded xmamp.
I now use mamp which means I don't have to deal with port 80 but I would still like to get it running.

ibook g4; Mac OS X (10.4.4), Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Jun 10, 2006 3:08 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 15, 2006 12:07 AM in response to Yorkie Chadwick

actually mamp is functioning on port 8888 ie http://localhost:8888/. I never use uppercase letters so case sesitivity should be an issue, I have no permissions when I try to use the terminal to look at apache even though I am the admin, it is all a mystery to me.

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Answer 2

Jun 29, 2006 9:46 AM in response to Yorkie Chadwick

here are the results for the Is command
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 38335 Jun 29 12:49 /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 38336 Jun 29 14:28 /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1 Jun 24 03:45 /etc/httpd/httpd.conf..save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 37417 Mar 21 2005 /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 38334 Mar 21 2005 /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.default
-rw------- 1 root wheel 38336 May 20 20:31 /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.save
-rw------- 1 root wheel 38332 May 20 20:44 /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.save.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 38372 Nov 30 2004 /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.user_modified

I hope this makes sense to some one out there.

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Answer 3

Jun 10, 2006 4:21 PM in response to Yorkie Chadwick

You're talking in circles. Unless you have a port number on the URL, you have to deal with port 80, http's well known port number.

If you're using a URL of 192.168.1.34/~username/ you must have /Users/username/Sites/index.html in place. If the file is named anything else, the default configuration of Apache won't look for it. Depending on how Apache's configged, it could give a 403 Permission denied error for other reasons.

One thing, Apache uses the *nix on OSX, and is case sensitive, that may be getting you.

Could you look at /var/log/httpd/error_log and post a couple of the messages? That would be very helpful in troubleshooting this.

Roger

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Answer 4

Jun 11, 2006 7:04 AM in response to Yorkie Chadwick

Please show us the output of the "ls" command in your Sites directory.

thanks!
Mihalis.

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Answer 5

Jun 29, 2006 5:56 AM in response to Yorkie Chadwick

this eems to be the common error
[Thu Jun 29 14:32:00 2006] [error] [client 192.168.1.34] File does not exist: /$
or the only error

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Answer 6

Jun 29, 2006 4:01 PM in response to Yorkie Chadwick

I'm seeing something really weird. Could you please run:

ls -lb /etc/httpd

That's ell bee.

Roger

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