apache not serving pages from subdirectory

[bjk03]

I have Joomla installed at /var/www/joomla, if I navigate to http://localhost/joomla, I get a 404 error, but if I add index.php, the page loads. What is wrong?? Also I am not able to navigate to the administration part of Joomla for the same reason, typing in index.php doesn't load it in this case. Yes I have verified that all files are present in the directory.

This is on 10.04.

[maomoa]

Add an .htaccess file to the directory with the following line:

DirectoryIndex index.php

[bjk03]

I have added an .htaccess and still no change.

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

check the permissions on the file/folder
apache (www-data) will need read access at the very least

[bjk03]

File permissions are 644, folders are 755. One thing I did see is that my user (bjk) is the owner of the joomla foler, does www-data need to own it?

[SeijiSensei]

.htaccess files are disallowed by default in the definition in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:

       <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

You can edit this file as root with sudo and add the DirectoryIndex directive there:

       <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                DirectoryIndex index.php
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

or you can change AllowOverride from "None" to "All" to permit .htaccess to override the definition. A safer approach is to choose from among the options as described here.

[bjk03]

.

You can edit this file as root with sudo and add the DirectoryIndex directive there:

       <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                DirectoryIndex index.php
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

I have made this change and still unable to get pages to display unless I type in index.php. I also have restarted my system (and thus Apache)and still no change! GRR!!

[bjk03]

GOT IT FINALLY!!!!

Here is what I added to /etc/apache2/sites-svailable/default

<Directory /var/www/Joomla161/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                DirectoryIndex index.php
                RewriteBase /Joomla161
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

Once I added the RewriteBase line, things work as they should!!