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

[Grand Rapids Linux Users Group]

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?
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