I'm baffed by this fairly simple apache2 configuration. Given the following two configuration files, I expect the DocumentRoot to be /www/htdocs but instead, it's the apache default of /var/www/html. These are the configuration files with all the comment lines removed:
grep -v '^\s*#' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf|grep -v '^\s*$'
DefaultRuntimeDir ${APACHE_RUN_DIR}
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 5
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
LogLevel warn
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.load
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.conf
Include ports.conf
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all denied
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share>
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
AccessFileName .htaccess
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Require all denied
</FilesMatch>
LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
grep -v '^\s*#' /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf|grep -v '^\s*$'
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName hpmicro1.lovelady.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /www/htdocs
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Here, I'll stop the apache service, do some cleanup and restart it (cleanup is to hopefully avoid confusion for those who cannot see this done)
> sudo service apache2 stop
> date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S'
2021-07-19-09:47:52
> > /var/log/apache2/error.log
> service apache2 start
> ls -l /var/log/apache2/error.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 245 Jul 19 09:47 /var/log/apache2/error.log
> ps -ef|grep apache2|grep www
www-data 111420 111414 0 09:47 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 111421 111414 0 09:47 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 111422 111414 0 09:47 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 111423 111414 0 09:47 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 111424 111414 0 09:47 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
> cat /var/log/apache2/error.log
[Mon Jul 19 09:47:53.833123 2021] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 111414] AH00163: Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Jul 19 09:47:53.834328 2021] [core:notice] [pid 111414] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
With all this done, here's what apache2 reports as the current configuration. As I said, the DocumentRoot is not what I expect. What might I be missing? The apache2ctl -S command identifies the very file that has the /www/htdocs DocumentRoot named. Hmmm....
> apache2ctl -S
VirtualHost configuration:
*:80 hpmicro1.lovelady.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
ServerRoot: "/etc/apache2"
Main DocumentRoot: "/var/www/html"
Main ErrorLog: "/var/log/apache2/error.log"
Mutex watchdog-callback: using_defaults
Mutex default: dir="/var/run/apache2/" mechanism=default
Mutex mpm-accept: using_defaults
PidFile: "/var/run/apache2/apache2.pid"
Define: DUMP_VHOSTS
Define: DUMP_RUN_CFG
User: name="www-data" id=33
Group: name="www-data" id=33
In case there are questions about permissions, here's the pertinent ownership stuff about /www/htdocs...
> ls -ld /www/htdocs
drwxrwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 22:58 /www/htdocs
total 72
> ls -l /www/htdocs
-rw-rw-rw- 1 www-data www-data 35752 Jul 17 14:09 dbg-wizard.php
drwxrwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 16 08:15 functions
drwxrwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 17 12:38 GetChats
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 10918 Jul 18 16:16 index.html
-rw-rw-rw- 1 www-data www-data 20 Jul 17 14:18 index.php
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Jun 29 13:32 logs
-rw-rw-rw- 1 www-data www-data 67 Jul 17 14:18 php-love-info.php
-rw-rw-rw- 1 www-data www-data 23 Jul 17 14:18 show-php-info.php
Thanks for any help