Edit Apache configuration file for your site setting. It may be httpd.conf or a virtual host file that ends with .conf specific to your site. Add the below line with the host file and give the correct path for the error message page. ErrorDocument 404 /404.html If you do not want to create a custom page to showcase the error message, you can simply add the error message in the configuration file ErrorDocument 404 "404 - Page not found." Error status codes on the client side 400 - Bad Request 401 - Unauthorized 402 - Payment Required 403 - Forbidden 404 - Not Found 405 - Method Not Allowed 406 - Not Acceptable 407 - Proxy Authentication Required 408 - Request Timeout 409 - Conflict 410 - Gone 411 - Length Required 412 - Precondition Failed 413 - Request Entity Too Large 414 - Request-URI Too Long 415 - Unsupported Media Type 416 - Requested Range Not Satisfiable 417 - Expectation Failed Error status codes shown from server 500 - Internal Server Error 501 - Not Implemented 502 - Bad Gateway 503 - Service Unavailable 504 - Gateway Timeout 505 - HTTP Version Not Supported

Apache server is installed by default on Mac. Access the configuration settings for Apache by going to $ cd /etc/apache2/ $ vi httpd.conf To enable php, edit httpd.conf and uncomment the line #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so Uncomment other lines that you may want to load in your system. As you are enabling PHP in your system, you may want to change the DirectoryIndex to DirectoryIndex index.php index.html Default group/user settings inside Apache on Mac is _www:_www (more…)

To setup Rails on windows after Ruby and Rails setup, i) Edit hosts file in windows environment and set the server name in the hosts file to 127.0.0.1 myrails In this example, i have used "myrails" as the server name for the project. ii) Edit httpd configuration setting on WAMP to make sure proxy and proxy_http module is turned on (check if it those lines are not commented out) LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so (more…)

Apache Error log shows the message "Client denied by server configuration" and the user sees "Forbidden Access" when they try to visit a web page. Solution: Search for the apache configuration file (httpd.conf or vhosts.conf if you have configured a virtual host). Check for the directory permission set for the document root of the web site in question and do the following changes. (more…)

CakePHP commonly known as 'Cake' is easy to install and faster to configure. It needs Apache (with mod_rewrite enabled), Php 4.3.2 or higher, MySQL/PostgreSQL/other ODBC, ADODB compliant databases. XAMPP by ApacheFriends or MAMP has a complete installation of the above products which is an ultimate time saver. But, you should prefer installing each software individually in order to get a grip on the subject. You can download the latest release from http://cakeforge.org/frs/download.php/695/1.2.0.7962.tar.gz (more…)

There will be a link in httpd.conf file stating the document root where all our web application files need to reside though there can be symbolic links pointing to other locations. [root@user Desktop]# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf .......... .......... DocumenRoot "/var/www/html" .......... .......... Based on the configuration setting, we need to identify the location where we need to create folders that will serve as the root for the applications that we would want to host.