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Posted: **01 May 2008, 12:29**

I messed up my apache.
I was trying to configure my postfix to send via my ISPs SMTP and following a howto I did

apt-get install postfix-tls

which gave me an error indicating that I should do

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dpkg --configure -a

I did and this produced another error indicating some problems with the apache-mod-php4 dependency. It also suggested I do

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apt-get -f install

which I did. Among the things it did was a reload of apache. Completing the howto, my mail started working as expected, but then I discovered that my apache only returned 404. There are no entries in the access log but the error log started writing

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[Thu May 01 18:03:48 2008] [error] [client 83.138.130.159] File does not exist:
/htdocs

for my website, webmail and web-admin.

I have rebooted with no change.

I have no clue what went wrong and any suggestions are most welcome!

EDIT:
I discovered that there are no files in sites-enabled. Thats not good.
EDIT2:
Enabled site "bubba" and got my website up. Webmail and web-admin still not working. Error is now:

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[Thu May 01 18:51:31 2008] [error] [client 85.82.199.178] File does not exist: /
var/www/html/web-admin, referer: http://javacon.dk/bubba/

and true enough I have no web-admin there. So what config file was overwritten? Was bubba in enabled different from bubba in available? Is yours?
Edit3:
seems like the bubba package was removed. After reinstall webmail and web-admin exist but php seems to be non-functional; my browser asks what to do with the php files it has just downloaded.
I guess I can get in line with the others who have messed their bubba application up when trying to upgrade.

Posted: **01 May 2008, 14:35**

Hi
strange that you got this error.
you can check if the bubba package is still available.

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dpkg --list|grep bubba

This should give you your version of the bubba package, starting with ii which indicated that it is installed.

Most likely through the reconfigure of apache, it removed a bubba apache conf file, just like it removed bubba from the site-enabled.
The error you get indicates it misses the file web-admin file in the directory /etc/apache2/conf.d
Create it:

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vi /etc/apache2/conf.d/web-admin

This should be in the file

Alias /web-admin "/usr/share/web-admin/"
<Directory "/usr/share/web-admin/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi
Options ExecCGI
</Directory>

Restart apache and you should be fine.

cheers
Eek

Posted: **01 May 2008, 14:53**

Thank you Eek. I think you are right, but by the time you replied I had reinstalled bubba (and with it IlohaMail and libapache-mod-php4) and the file was back in place.

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bubba:~# dpkg --list|grep bubba
ii  bubba          0.52.2-1       This is the filesystem for Bubba

Now however, php doesn't seem to be working; apache serves the php-files to my browser instead of interpreting them. I don't have a php.conf in conf.d. Should I?

My problems might arise from installing subversion in accordance with the howto. I modified my apt sources and left them modified.

EDITs:
php module was not enabled

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bubba:/# a2enmod php4
Module php4 installed; run /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload to enable.
bubba:/#  /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
Forcing reload of web server: Apache2.

which fixed web-admin!
Now what do I enable to get IlohaMail working: browser asks what to do with:

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application/x-httpd-php

AAHH a simple cache problem.

Well I guess I am good. This was... interesting

Posted: **02 May 2008, 12:59**

Great it worked out.
You should have a php4.conf in the directory mods-available,
which should have the AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
As you are not the first and not the last

to have suddenly things not work out or package de-installed... etc
What i now do to try and prevent these kind of things is use the -s parameter with apt-get.
This simulates the install, but does not actually install.
This saved me a couple of times, because i saw that for a simple package install it wanted to deinstall my package bubba and dovecot, etc !
hope it helps

cheers
Eek

Posted: **12 May 2008, 10:57**

Where do I find this mods-available?

Posted: **12 May 2008, 13:21**

/etc/apache2/mods-available

Posted: **12 May 2008, 16:37**

Thanks!

Posted: **14 May 2008, 14:00**

Here is a nice description of managing apache in debian.

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