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

[Grand Rapids Linux Users Group]

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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