I have the same problem with all web servers based on TurnKey. We must not be doing something that "any idiot would know" to install and configure this properly. You didn't mention but I'm running my TurnKey solutions inside of VirtualBoxes and not native.

You can remove the default page from the LAMP stack by deleting/replacing /var/www/index.php

As for tomcat, you can remove/replace /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT

I hope the above helps.

Actually I don't want to remove anything?? I believe our specific problem is as follows:

1. When I run the installed Linux with web server, it tells me my IP address is 192.168.1.44 let's say.

2. I launch a browser and type 192.168.1.44 in the address bar and I go to the TurnKey webmin page.

3. I launch a browser and type 192.168.1.44:80 in the address bar and I go to the TurnKey webmin page.

4. I believe we think we should go to /var/www/index.php or whatever is there and serve it out instead.

5. Therefore, we must be missing some basic configuration steps to even get the web server to serve a page.

Thanks for the update. I tried to add a virtual host and got a message that it failed to add it. Whatever. I don't have a myhost or mydomain...only the IP address in the TurnKey Linux configuration panel on my server. Perhaps we really aren't talking about the same problem. Sorry, but it sounds like I'm not even as far as you are in getting this to work. I thought this would sorta work outta the box but that has proven to be wrong. I just haven't been able to gather enough evidence to figger it out, yet. Trial and Error. It takes longer but sometimes it's the only path.

Yeah, I thought you probably could do it that way but I still can't get it to work. I tend to push the envelope on what environments I try to run this stuff in. I just want to test a Java Application I wrote. I want to test it by deploying it to a Linux Web Server before going out to a public server. I selected LampStack TurnKey Appliance running inside an Oracle Virtual Box as described in TurnKey's tutorial. I then want to open a browser window on the same Windows machine hosting Virtual Box and type in the appropriate IP address to get web pages served from var/www. I can type in the IP address and get the TurnKey webmin page. I believed since the Apache Server was listening an ANY address on port 80 that I could get it to serve my web pages using port 80 on the back of my IP address. All I get is the webmin page. I don't have something configured properly or I am using it with incorrect expectations. Or...I don't know what I'm doing.

For me, the solution was quite simple and I will categorize it as incorrect expectations on my part. I followed your suggestion, which is what deploying my .war file will get done by Apache, and that is to create a directory under var/www which is accessed using the directory name. Thanks for your help and my current problem is resolved thanks to jordanthompson.

My only experience is with GoDaddy and the way they are apparently configured. If I address my domain name I get served what's in the home web directory configured by GoDaddy. That seems to be your top level web page. When I deployed a Java web application to GoDaddy, the next time Apache was configured to unarchive and deploy .war files, a directory was created under the home web directory that I needed to use to access my Java Web Application. That sort of made sense so I absorbed it. That is why I was expecting the same result as you in serving pages from the home web directory with just a domain name. The difference is the two Apache configurations. TurnKey and a commercial web hosting service.

I've actually tried sample war file deployments in Tomcat/Apache and LampStack. I don't know where the apps are served for Lamp but for Apache it's apparently var/lib/tomcat6/webapps. I place my sample war file there...it gets automatically unarchived and deployed. When I try to access it, I get the same results as everyone else. I get the control panel. As I said in one of MY previous emails, trial and error seems to be the necessary path to take when most results are "huh, it should work".

Yes, jordanthompson...that is exactly my behavior except replace hostname with an IP address and I can make exactly the same statement.

I've just downloaded and tested the Tomcat/Apache appliance and you guys are completely correct. By default browsing to http://<appliance-ip>/ auto redirects to http://<appliance-ip>/cp/ - whereas typing in http://<appliance-ip>/index.html will display what's in /var/www/index.html

With a bit of digging around I have found how you can change that behaviour. If you edit the first line of /etc/tomcat6/mod_jk.conf from:

RedirectMatch ^/$ /cp

to

RedirectMatch ^/$ /index.html

now just typing http://<appliance-ip>/ will display http://<appliance-ip>/index.html (ie /var/www/index.html).

I only discovered this by hunting around and a bit of trial and error. I'm not convinced that what I've done is necesarily the best way to go but it does appear to work.

BTW all the orginal stuff still works too, but you have to specify it, eg http://<appliance-ip>/cp

Good Job by everyone to follow up on the problem. I can confirm the edit works for index.html. Can I make this redirect more complex by pointing to the suggested tomcat app (with the appropriate mod_jk settings)?But you lost this old newbie when you talk pointing to a tomcat app. I want to deploy Java Web Applications so my edit will be to point to a file...index.jsp.

I'm tryin to figure that out Jeremy. Redirecting to index.jsp got me a page not found...I guess because my app is in var/lib/tomcat6/webapps instead of var/www. This is all very confusing to me. If I unarchive my app in var/www I just get served the directory contents when I try to access the directory name in a browser. I guess because Apache doesn't serve apps out of var/www so it doesn't recognize it I guess. I suppose I'm changing the subject from "how to serve web pages" to "how to serve web applications" in turnkey apache tomcat.

Thanks, Jeremy. I will try that. This is really only a test bed for deployment of a Java Web Application. I was not aware the standalone appliance had it's own server that would do what I need it to do. Don't need to serve html pages, just Java Server pages. However, I do need support for MySQL if the standalone applicance supports that I'm on my way.

Thanks again to everyone for their excellent help. I acquired and installed the standalone Tomcat appliance. I ftp'd my sample war file to var/lib/tomcat6/webapps. Apache took it and unarchived it and deployed it. I launched my browser and pointed to <ip address>/sample and the sample web application launched and served jsp pages and servlets. I'm good to go with my testing. Thanks again. I'm happy. Uhh...I may have inadvertently solved my problem by getting rid of the ROOT application unaware that it was the control panel. So, I need to start over again to ensure I don't need to edit any config files and still able to get at the control panel if no subdirectory is provided in the ip address.