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I have lost web browser access to my local PHP files. Fortunately phpmyadmin continues to work nicely.

When I type my server ip in Firefox I get: 

Index of /
[ICO]   Name    Last modified   Size    Description
Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

as if /var/www was empty, which is not the case. I guess that Apache now has some other folder (or none at all) defined as root directory location, but I do not know how to fix it.

Braiam
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Kolingua
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4 Answers4

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Your html or php files have to be moved to the new root:

/var/www/html/
animaletdesequia
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The new Apache default server location is /var/www/html. You can move all your files to the new directory or you can do the following on a terminal (as root):

    # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
    # nano site1

Now, on nano paste the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName site1

    DocumentRoot /var/www/
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Save the file and run these commands (again as root):

    # a2ensite site
    # nano /etc/hosts

Now add this on the first line: 127.0.0.1 localhost site1

Save the file and reload Apache with this command (again as root):

    # /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

You should get a message telling you site1 is enabled. Now you can safely remove /var/www/html so you don't have an empty directory on your server:

    # rm /var/www/html/

Hope it helps, greetings.

Samuel Ochoa
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If you have virtual hosts defined in sites-available, probably hosted in distinct directories outside of /var/www/html, then you may have stumbled into the new configuration file naming convention.

Make sure your virtual host configuration files end in .conf.

Full explanation here: https://askubuntu.com/a/525120/1183

Community
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augustin
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Copy all the html files under /var/www/html. Now open the terminal and change the permission with sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www, now you wont get such errors when you run in firefox.

Andrea Corbellini
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TabNaaz
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