Problem with Httpd directory

[midcarolina]

This is strange. I am using the latest version of ISPConfig 3 (3.0.4?) Anyhow, on my very slightly older servers that are using the EXACT same Linux distro, I had white screens on website launch and all httpd error_log showed:

file not found in /var/www/html/ All I had to do to fix this on the other servers running exactly the same everything is place an empty index.html file in the directory file manager like so:

/var/www/html/index.html This fixed the problem in the past right away. No go now. I am not getting any other error except this for httpd.

Hope someone has a solution? Thank you.

[till]

1) Post the exact error messages as they appear in the log file.

2) The directory /var/www/html/ is not used on a ispconfig server. If you get a error message for that directory, then either the domain in the website settings ois wrong or you selected the wrong IP address for the domain, so that apache could not find the correct vhost.

[midcarolina]

Till,

Here is the latest snippet of the httpd error log. Posting only a bit as it gets redundant from here. The IP situation I don't quite understand. I have a family of 5 WAN IPs, all the same except ending in 146 - 150. Two other boxes are duplicate set-ups with the same router and DMZ running and they were fine after I created the dummy index.html in the /var/www/html directory. Anyway, here it is. Hope you can help. Thanks

[Thu Jan 05 03:44:54 2012] [error] [client 180.76.5.170] File does not exist: /var/www/html/ca
[Thu Jan 05 03:44:54 2012] [error] [client 66.249.71.201] File does not exist: /var/www/html/bg
[Thu Jan 05 03:44:57 2012] [error] [client 66.249.71.201] File does not exist: /var/www/html/mk
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:03 2012] [error] [client 31.222.129.165] File does not exist: /var/www/html/feed
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:12 2012] [error] [client 180.76.5.51] File does not exist: /var/www/html/ca
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:12 2012] [error] [client 66.249.71.201] File does not exist: /var/www/html/ca
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:24 2012] [error] [client 50.16.86.196] File does not exist: /var/www/html/2011
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:24 2012] [error] [client 66.249.71.201] File does not exist: /var/www/html/da
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:30 2012] [error] [client 180.76.5.172] File does not exist: /var/www/html/ca
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:30 2012] [error] [client 66.249.71.201] File does not exist: /var/www/html/ca
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:31 2012] [error] [client 84.95.241.30] script '/var/www/html/xmlrpc.php' not found or unable to stat
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:32 2012] [error] [client 84.95.241.30] script '/var/www/html/wp-login.php' not found or unable to stat
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:32 2012] [error] [client 84.95.241.30] script '/var/www/html/wp-login.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: http://thebestpublishers.com/wp-login.php
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:32 2012] [error] [client 69.147.240.67] File does not exist: /var/www/html/2011, referer: http://www.truthdig.com/eartothegrou..._rose_in_2008/
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:32 2012] [error] [client 84.95.241.30] File does not exist: /var/www/html/submit-articles
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:32 2012] [error] [client 84.95.241.30] File does not exist: /var/www/html/about
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:33 2012] [error] [client 84.95.241.30] File does not exist: /var/www/html/wp-admin
[Thu Jan 05 03:45:33 2012] [error] [client 84.95.241.30] File does not exist: /var/www/html/author-panel

[till]

These lines are from bots scanning your server and these attempts were blocked correctly, so these are no errors, theys linies indicate that your server correctly denied access to non existing directories.

[midcarolina]

Hey Till,

I think you may be missing something here...probably should have explained. You'll see in the error logs for httpd:

file not found /var/www/html/wp-admin

There is a wordpress site on this server which gets a white screen and I have before been able to initiate wp-admin to reactivate a theme. Not the case here. The site will not launch because something is not leading it to the correct file path. These are not all bots...only some. Do you see what I mean? There are two live WordPress site, both of which are installed perfectly (I have installed at least 500 or so wp sites in my life). So there is another issue here. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[till]

1) Look in the error.log of the affected website, not the global error.log.

2) Is the IP address 84.95.241.30 your IP while you accessed the wordpress site, then see my post #2:

2) The directory /var/www/html/ is not used on a ispconfig server. If you get a error message for that directory, then either the domain in the website settings ois wrong or you selected the wrong IP address for the domain, so that apache could not find the correct vhost.

[midcarolina]

the ispconfig site httpd error.log is empty, but I know I am using the correct IP. There is no doubt at all. I just checked this again for posterity...it's fine.