[ale] Location of Http directory

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

It varies between distros and versions.  What you might do is bring up the
root page in the browser of your choice, and determine the name of the
file containing the apache logo that appears on the default root page.
Having done that, you can log in as root and do this:

find / -name apache_logo.pnm -print 2>/dev/null

...substituting the name of the apache logo for apache_logo.pnm in the
formula above.  Find does a recursive sweep of the directories.  the /
indicates what directory you want to start from (in this case, the top),
the -name directive filters on what you are looking for by name of the
file, apache_logo.pnm is the name of that file (wildcards can be used, but
should be escaped or quoted, e.g. \*.gif or "*.gif" rather than *.gif)
-print is not really necessary, but I do it out of habit of using SYSV at
work, and the 2>/dev/null will keep you from seeing any error messages
(you will otherwise get a boatload of access denied messages).

Once you find the logo, you should be pretty close to where the root page
is located.  Poke around the directories in that vicinity, an dyou should
find it.

Good luck!

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Dennis Herrick wrote:

> I'm fairly new to Linux . . . I have apache server running (on Mandrake
> 8.1). When from my Win machine I type in the url for the mandrake
> machine, I get a page that says "Running version
> Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.20 (Mandrake Linux/3mdk)" etc.
>
> How do I find out WHERE this page is?? I'd like to put up my own page,
> but don't know where to put it.
>
> The httpd.conf file (in /etc/httpd/conf) doesn't give a DocumentRoot.
>
> Anyone help?
>
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