Setting up Apache 2 on Ubuntu Server 6.06

Solved the other issues previously posted; however, I have noticed that the Debian camp handles Apache a little bit different to what I'm used to (RHEL, CentOS, SuSE). Now on with the problem. Again, setting up an Apache server using Ubuntu - just to gain experience with Ubuntu. I've heard a lot about this distro and feel as if it is really up and coming.

Anyway, set everything else up in a CLI environment only and so far so good. Now, when I move the HTML pages to /var/www/apache2-default when I check for the presence of the Web site I am greeted with a directory tree of the parent directory. Now, what am I missing here? I edited the httpd.conf file to look for an index.htm and usually, this is all that is required on other Linux servers (i.e. CentOS and SuSE). However, I cannot get my index file to load - I only receive the directory tree when browsing http://serveripaddress. Any thoughts to what I'm missing here? Again, this is Apache2.

I never realized just how different the various distros actually are. Different places for .conf files and different locations for file storage. I've actually had to think on this Ubuntu box; however, it is good to expand one's horizons a bit.

TIA

There already should be a line like this in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf :

Code:

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DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml

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By default it is there, and it does work. Maybe you can add "index.htm" to that?

That is the line that I edited - editing index.html to index.htm.

Now, I've noticed that when I start the httpd daemon I receive the following error "unable to determine fully qualifed domain name, using 127.0.0.1 instead." Now, this is a bit odd, since I've never really encounterd this error with other Apache installs. When viewing the apache2 log, I notice that a lot of restarts are being issued due to service stopping and restarting. ?????

With all of these errors, I'm sticking with the RHEL and SuSE camp.