fedora core test page?

[SRussell]

I don't know whats going on. Going to the website I am beginning to build I get rerouted to a Fedora Core Test Page that says that Apache is working and that I should put files in /var/www/html/ but that does not even exist and I can't create the location to put files into it. And the instruction file that they mention is not existent either.
Here's the site:
www.scholarlystuff.org

Any help is appreciated!
Sarah

[Hvu]

Hrm its been 3days and no replies for you? In Plesk did you create a domain for your site and it should setup everything for you in there. It might not display the files in /var/www/html due to permission/group error.

[quarghost]

Going to the website I am beginning to build I get rerouted to a Fedora Core Test Page that says that Apache is working and that I should put files in /var/www/html/ but that does not even exist and I can't create the location to put files into it.


Hi,

This is because you (1) removed the default plesk "placeholder" page and/or (2) you haven't put a recognized default DirectoryIndex page in Apache's httpd.conf file.

I ran into this problem because I normally use index.htm as my index page and apache is set up to recognize index.html (among otherthings), but not *.htm. Anyway, SSH into your account and go to /etc/httpd/conf/ and open the httpd.conf file.

You can use something like:
vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
or:
pico /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Then just find the DirectoryIndex line and add whatever you want to call the 'homepage'. The standard is index.extension, extension being .html, .htm, .cgi, .php...

Save and close the config file and the reboot apache from within Plesk. That should do it.

And, forget the /var/www... place to store your files. Plesk stores your www files in a directory called httpdocs. I assume you've already found this place.

Mike