Fedora Core 2 HTTP server and Apache 2.49

[amirsamy]

I have just installed fedora core2 os on my machine. At installation time, i have specified that i wanted the http server from fedora to be installed with the packages. i thought that this would be the apache server. to my surprise, i found no httpd service in the services mangaement screen and nothing was listening on port 80. I then downloaded the apache 2.49 server from the apache site. i set it up on my pc. whenever i put any html files int the htdocs directory, they are not run. the localhost directory still points to /var/www/html. What can i do to make things work?

Thanx

[outrun]

Please give more information.
I am assuming that you started the service by this in the bash shell

service httpd start

also I have assumed that you have this somewhere in your httpd.conf file

DocumentRoot "/my/directory/htdocs"

and

<Directory "/my/directory/htdocs">

in your Directory directives, if you have done all this, have you checked the error log file?

regards,
Mark

[amirsamy]

i tried editing the documentroots, but still nothing. Where can i find the error logfile and how can i interpret what is written in it. and yes i started it from the shell.

thnx for your fast replies

[outrun]

It should tell you in the httpd.conf file in the ErrorLog section, the error log is pretty self explanatory.

regards,
Mark

[outrun]

<edit> Wrong post </edit>