I have installed apache on a 1GB slice and then installed Drupal6. I expected to see the drupal home page when I type in the url. However I still get the apache "It works!" page which means that Drupal han't been able to tell apache to redirect the request.
One thing I have noticed in my installation is that in my apache config files the "AccessFileName" directive is set to .htaccess but I noticed that the drupal installation has a "htaccess" (notice the missing dot). I'm tempted to just change the directive in the apache config files, restart apache and move on but then I want to be sure that I haven't missed something which could cause problems later.
This is my first drupal setup on a VPS, I used shared hosting all these months and didn't have these issues because the installation was through "Fantastico". Would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Sridhar
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The first thing you should do is scrap the fantastico install and install drupal manually (see http://drupal.org/forum/fantastico-de-luxe).
I installed manually
It was a manual install using "aptitude install". The issue is when I visit the url (which is the ip address) I just get the apache default page instead of the drupal home page. I tried all possible forums but nobody seems to have an answer.
My head is spinning. I wish someone can help me.
Acer Aspire 5745
[i5 430M, 3GB, 320GB]
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
Drupal 6.15, 7.x
DigitalOcean, Go Daddy, Rackspace,
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I've always installed the stack manually and never had any problems, but i think the drupal htacess file should be '.htaccess' not 'htaccess'. Also, are there multiple index.* files in the web root? If so, you need to make sure drupal's index.php file is first.
I am not alone
@WorldFallz, Thanks for the response. I finally discovered that I am not the only one having this problem, there are several others before me and have chosen to report this problem not on the forums but as a comment to the articles in slicehost. See http://articles.slicehost.com/2010/5/19/apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-p... for all the comments. I have added my experiences as well to the thread.
Acer Aspire 5745
[i5 430M, 3GB, 320GB]
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
Drupal 6.15, 7.x
DigitalOcean, Go Daddy, Rackspace,
Finally did it
Finally managed to crack it. There seems to be an issue the way vhosts are configured in Ubuntu. So if you have installed Drupal using a package manager like aptitude or apt-get remove it and install it as per the instructions here.
http://2bits.com/articles/installing-a-dedicated-server-or-a-vps-with-ub...
You might also want to read the documentation available at the link below.
http://www.drupal.org/server-permissions
Acer Aspire 5745
[i5 430M, 3GB, 320GB]
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
Drupal 6.15, 7.x
DigitalOcean, Go Daddy, Rackspace,