Ubuntu Server 14.04 - Serve Web Applications

[jeff1evesque]

We have properly setup this repository on the Ubuntu Server 14.04. The index.html corresponds the Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page:

However, when visiting this project within a browser, we get a 404 Not Found:

[jeff1evesque]

First, clear the contents within each log file contained within the /var/log/apache2 directory, then save each emptied file.

Next, open http://localhost within the browser, and as above notice the page is being generated. So, we attempt to see if any logs were recorded:

$ cd /var/log/apache2
$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r----- 1 root adm    0 Jul 30 00:29 access.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm    0 Jul 30 00:27 error.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm    0 Jul 27 09:34 other_vhosts_access.log

It is clear that no logs were recorded upon accessing the apache2 index.html. So, we proceed to access http://localhost/audio-analyzer/ within the browser, and notice one of the logs changed:

$ cd /var/log/apache2
$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r----- 1 root adm    160 Jul 30 00:29 access.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm        0 Jul 30 00:27 error.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm        0 Jul 27 09:34 other_vhosts_access.log

We open access.log:

$ cd /var/log/apache2
$ sudo pico access.log

And, notice the following content:

::1 - - [30/Jul/2014:00:30:09 -0400] "GET /audio-analyzer/ HTTP/1.1" 404 503 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0"

Now, we attempt to access http://localhost/audio-analyzer/index.php within the browser. Again, only the access.log file changes:

$ cd /var/log/apache2
$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r----- 1 root adm    329 Jul 30 00:29 access.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm        0 Jul 30 00:27 error.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm        0 Jul 27 09:34 other_vhosts_access.log

We open access.log file, and notice the following content:

::1 - - [30/Jul/2014:00:30:09 -0400] "GET /audio-analyzer/ HTTP/1.1" 404 503 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0" ::1 - - [30/Jul/2014:00:39:27 -0400] "GET /audio-analyzer/index.php HTTP/1.1" 404 512 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0"

IRC #ubuntu (07/29/14 ~ 9:45pm EST):

jeffreylevesque: I need to configure my Ubuntu Server. It currently doesn't serve up pages from my web application - https:/​/​github.com/​jeff1evesque/​audio-analyzer/​issues/​372

meganerd: jeffreylevesque: /var/log/apache2/error.log

[jeff1evesque]

We discovered that applications should be saved within the html/ subdirectory. Ubuntu Server 14.04 defines this as the new root directory for the server. After moving the audio-analyzer directory into the html/ subdirectory, the page was generated within the browser: