[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 12.04 LTS localhost* and internet fail - where to start^h^h^h^h^h continue?

Sat Apr 12 19:40:13 EDT 2014

Don't forget to sanity check via another browser. (Wouldn't be the first 
time I forget an add in was blocking something.) And view/source. Blank 
white result doesn't mean there ain't guts within it. e.g. even <HTML> 
</HTML> means you got fed something.

On 14-04-12 06:30 PM, John Johnson wrote:
> On 2014-04-12 18:16, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>> $ wget --server-response -O /dev/null localhost
>
> The response is as you describe, i.e. OK.
>
>>     8) FF: w/address "localhost/index.php" (or any of the expected
>>     test/info pages) returns a 404 "Not Found" error
>>
>>
>> First create a test.txt file and put in it a few words.
>> Put it in /var/www and make it 644.
>
> I have various test files at /var/www and cannot access any with FF:
> http://localhost/<filename>.
> Each attempt returns the 404 error.
>
> Hence my assumptions re: localhost mapping done by the new installation
> of apache.
>
> Thanks for the direction to look at: /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
>
> JohnJ
>
>
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