404 Not Found Webuser1

**Jordan_Hickin** · April 28th, 2014

Hi guys

I was following the information on this: http://www.techsupportalert.com/how-...web-server.htm

I get as far as testing the webuser site. (192.168.0.7/webuser)

All i get is a 404 Not Found.

my basic 192.168.0.7 is showing as the default ubuntu page.

Where am i meant to be saving the html files. the user setup details are as follows:

Code:

root@webserver1:/etc# cd /var/www
root@webserver1:/var/www# mkdir webuser1
root@webserver1:/var/www# useradd webuser1 -p **** -d /var/www/webuser1 -s /bin/false
root@webserver1:/var/www# chown webuser1 webuser1
root@webserver1:/var/www# passwd webuser1
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated sucessfully

I connect via the terminal on my laptop. Running Ubuntu.

I know how to put items on there.. but i am unsure where to put the html file.

Wouldn't it come up with something anyway rather than 404 Not Found....

Please Help

**m_duck** · April 29th, 2014

Yep, a 404 would be expected. Apache in Ubuntu uses /var/www as the document root, so if it is listening on 192.168.0.7 (local network) it will serve the contents of /var/www when you ask it to. It will serve index.html or index.htm if it exists when you request a folder name (e.g. 192.168.0.7 or 192.168.0.7/webuser1). Also it will try and serve index.php etc. if you have PHP or other scripting languages installed and configured.

If /var/www/webuser1 is an empty directory, requesting 192.168.0.7/webuser1 will return a 404 (not found) error. This is because your request translates looking in the /var/www/webuser1/ folder for a file named index.html, index.htm (or index.php etc.). When Apache can't find it, it returns a 404. If you put something like the following in /var/www/webuser1/index.html it should be output when you next surf there.

Code:

<html>
  <body>
    <p>Hello!</p>
  </body>
</html>

**lisati** · April 29th, 2014

Which version of Ubuntu server are you using? The default folder for placing the index.html or index.php file used to be /var/www. I believe in recent versions it was changed to /var/www/html.

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