Apache2 virtual host file not there.

[archieroques]

I have been following the RPF's tutorial on creating a LAMP server on my Raspberry Pi. I've almost finished, but I've hit a roadblock.

The tutorial says:

You'll also need to tell the virtual host serving the site to allow requests to be overwritten. Do this by editing the virtual host file (with root permissions): sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default; also, change the AllowOverride setting on line 11 (inside the <Directory /var/www/html/> block) from None to All. Save the file and then restart Apache with sudo service apache2 restart. Once it's restarted, refresh the page and it should load successfully. Now posts have URLs like /hello-world/ instead of /?p=123, and pages have URLs like /sample-page/ instead of /?page_id=2.

However, when I enter

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sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

a blank file comes up. When I navigate to the directory and run

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ls

a file called 000-default.conf is shown. When I open this with nano however, none of the lines that the tutorial specifies are there.

What's gone wrong?

I'm using the latest Raspbian Jessie release, on a Raspberry Pi B 512mb, and the tutorial here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/la ... worksheet/

Thanks for your help.

[rpdom]

Ok, looks like a mistake on that tutorial.

I think you need to change the AllowOverride line in this block of 000-default

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        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
                Order Deny,Allow
                Deny from all
                Allow from 192.168.42.0/24
        </Directory>

[DougieLawson]

Your problem is the tutorial was written for Apache2 2.2 on Wheezy. Your Raspberry is running Apache2 2.4 on Jessie and the default installation materials are different. There's a default virtualhost defined in 000-default.conf and HTML moves to /var/www/html (from /var/www).

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root@beaufort:/etc/apache2/sites-available # ls
000-default.conf  default-ssl.conf
root@beaufort:/etc/apache2/sites-available # cd /var/www
root@beaufort:/var/www # ls
html
root@beaufort:/var/www #

That should get you heading in the right direction.

BTW, don't use "Allow from" blocks, they're a monster pain in the tail.