Question

I have an Apache2 server that is configured to provide a website which is located in different folders as follows:

• /var/www/main contains the homepage file index.html
• /var/www/sub contains another file sub.html

While my website’s homepage is accessible the sub-part is not:

• www.mysite.com (== www.mysite.com/index.html) works
• ẁww.mysite.com/sub does not work
• ẁww.mysite.com/sub.html does not work
• ẁww.mysite.com/sub/sub.html does not work

The error messages are always requested URL ... was not found on this server

/etc/apache2/sites-available/sub:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.mysite.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/sub
    <Directory /var/www/sub>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/main
    <Directory /var/www/main>
        AllowOverride all
        Options -MultiViews
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

What is wrong with my configuration?

Answer 1

Need summat like

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.mysite.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/main
    Alias  /sub /var/www/sub
    <Directory /var/www/main>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/sub>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Then http://mysite.com/sub/sub.html will be the sub file. http://mysite.com/index.html or http://mysite.com should also work.

If a sub-directory is not required you need to look into ReWrite