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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>mywebsite.com</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS="*,0" FRAMEBORDER=0 BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0>
<FRAME SRC="http://###.###.###.###"
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
Could anyone shed any light on this? I've been reading up on .htaccess and mod_rewrite but, being a noob, am not sure if I'm barking up the wrong tree.
That is indeed the HTML source code of a Web page as would be visible using "View Page Source" in the browser, so I'm afraid that I do not understand your question.
Jim
To me, it seems that perhaps Apache has generated it's own html and is including my webpage in a frameset (the html code in my webpage is entirely different, and no html file with the code shown by the browser exists).
I first noticed this when I wanted to submit the site to Google, and when attempting to verify ownership of my site (using Google Webtools) it became apparent that Google was not seeing the meta tags of my site - rather it was only seeing the page decribed in my previous post.
Obviously, I would like search engines to index my site and not the bizarre frameset page.
I have set the DocumentRoot in httpd.conf to point to the correct folder. I have created a folder in the DocumentRoot folder which contains all the files for my website, and have set appropriate directives in a VirtualHost container to point to that folder.
Is this something to do with how urls are rewriten in order for virtual hosting to work? Or, perhaps I have misunderstood how some of the features work in the <Directory /> containers?
The "default" set:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
The "DocumentRoot" set:
<Directory "/path/to/my/sites/folder">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I have not created any .htaccess files nor do there appear to be any. I have used mod_rewrite once which sets a rule for Trace.
Before I go on, am I even on the right track?!
Complications arise when you consider all the modules bolted on to Apache, and of course, adding scripts such as PERL and PHP complicates it further since those are outside of Apache itself.
If you didn't create that frameset, then some agent did, but not Apache. Could it be that you used a WYSIWYG page editor (FrontPage, DreamWeaver, etc.), or perhaps you're running some kind of CMS or a PHP-driven site?
Because the frame contains your site's title, foul play is less likely but of course, still possible.
This is odd... At first reading, I thought the frame page was (implicitly being acknowledged as) yours, and that you just had a MIME-type or content-encoding problem... It'll be interesting to see what the cause of this is.
Jim
In configuring Apache, I've activated the bare minimum of (shared) mods. I went through the documentation for every mod and did my best at ascertaining whether I would be using them or not. Can it be a missing or mis-used mod creating this?
As for my site, it's a simple, static two page site which I've hand-coded (xhtml/css). It includes a form, which requires PHP to be submitted, so I have PHP(5.2.1) compiled/configured on my server. So I don't see the site itself having anything to do with it. Am I overlooking something?
Let me add to the bizarreness: Both pages of my site have links to W3C validators (xhtml 1.0 strict and css). The markup/css validate, and the source code for my site are shown as I'd expect to see them. So, why do my browsers (Safari and Camino) and Google only see the weird/alien/non-existent frameset code (which, btw, seems to be missing a closing '>' )?
You mentioned foul play. With regard to this I don't know what more to say other than all logs (access/error/etc...) appear to be 'normal' (remembering I'm a noob, I could be wrong), showing several Stealth Mode connection attempts and some denied UDP entries (I have been led to believe these are to be expected). Is there anything in particular I should be looking out for?
This is odd indeed...
Sometimes, the "security" programs do funny things like remove all JavaScript calls, replace common-advertisement-sized images with a 1x1 transparent GIF, and all manner of things can make a page behave very strangely.
Also, whose IP address is that in your first post, yours, or someone else's?
Jim
Joe
I eschew any of those "parking and forwarding"-type setups, and didn't even think about that possibility. I hope you'll dump that and get "real DNS" for your server/site -- It'll save you a bunch of mickey-mouse problems.
Jim
Thanks for the support. Next time-waster: the eschewing of parking and forwarding... Wish me luck!
Thanks again,
Joe
