Apache default code in /var/www/html

DevOps
#1

So i want to display my application in place of default apache web server page and I will place my files from /opt/food directory into /var/ww/html directory which I understood but if i want to first check what already is there in that /var/ww/html directory then i am getting no output from :

thor@host01 ~$ sudo ls /var/www/html
thor@host01 ~$

How then the default page works is what i need some help in understanding?

#2

If ls shows no files, and especially with sudo then there are no files

#3

then how come apache is showing the default page?

#4

Have you checked the apache config file? It may be pointing to a different directory.

#5

Yes, checked

DocumentRoot “/var/www/html”
<Directory “/var/www”>
AllowOverride None
# Allow open access:
Require all granted

and there are no files in that directory

thor@host01 ~$ cd /var/www/html
thor@host01 /var/www/html$ ls
thor@host01 /var/www/html$

little confusing as how the default page is working

#6

Are you using any particular lab (link please), or is this a lodeklud engineer question (in which case it should be asked in KodeKloud Engineer - KodeKloud - DevOps Learning Community)

#7

This is how the magic happens

sudo ls -l /etc/httpd/conf.d

You should see

total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  400 Aug 17 14:09 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2926 Aug 17 14:08 autoindex.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1252 Aug 17 14:06 userdir.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  574 Aug 17 14:06 welcome.conf

Now examine welcome.conf

sudo cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf

Notice the Directory and Alias directives. These point to an alternative index.html which is used if there is no content in /var/www/html

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