httpd serving wrong DocumentRoot

[Mark Weaver]

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> 
>> Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> 
> 
>>> If you installed PHP from the RPM package, you should have file 
>>> /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf.  It contains corrects AddType directive.  
>>> In that case, you *do not* need to edit main httpd.conf file.  You 
>>> might need to restart httpd service (/etc/init.d/httpd restart) for 
>>> changes to take effect after you install PHP.
>>
>>
>> What?... :P ya learn something new about FC3 every day. Or maybe its 
>> just an Apache2 thing. I wasn't aware of that; frankly I never thought 
>> to look for that specific config file. huh... !
> 
> 
> I think it's the Red Hat thing.  There's "Include conf.d/*.conf" 
> statement in default httpd.conf file.  Wildcards in Include statement 
> are supported since Apache 1.3.27 and 2.0.41 respectively.
> 
> Basically, all Apache modules (php, mod_ssl, perl, and so on) do not 
> modify httpd.conf file anymore.  They drop their part of configuration 
> into conf.d directory.  For example, SSL is now handled by 
> conf.d/ssl.conf (part of mod_ssl package).  There's also 
> conf.d/welcome.conf that kicks in if you don't have index.html page in 
> your DocumentRoot.
> 

interesting... that would explain a few things I've seen over the past 
few months.

-- 
Mark
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