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Logan Besecker
Asked: 2012-07-03 22:27:02 +0800 CST

404 page not found on apache server

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I'm trying to get my feet wet with amazon web services and have SSH my instance and created a user, named logan, with admin rights. I then connected to the EC2 instance with the username and password I had created for the account using Cyberduck and uploaded a plain HTML file to make sure I had things working.

For some reason I cannot connect through my browser to:

home/logan/testtestesttest.html

I get a 404 page not found error.

I know that Apache was successfully installed though because if I type the elastic IP address in my address bar without any location afterword I get the "It works!" default page.

As far as the security groups for the instance go, I have HTTP open on port 80 to all IP addresses(0.0.0.0/0) and SSH open to my personal IP on port 22.

Thanks in advance,

-Logan

apache-2.2 amazon-ec2 amazon-web-services

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Did you put the file in /var/www/html/? That's where HTML files go by default.

    You can run apache2ctl -S to get some output of Apache's configuration and grep -r DocumentRoot /etc/apache2/ to find out where all the files are served from.

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  2. I think you need to check the apache config file and find out where exactly is the default DocumentRoot. Some distros default is /var/www/localhost

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