Hey guys I am tring to install wordpress on my CentOS Virtual Machine. So far my progress has been as follows: Installed following through yum: • mod_ssl • mysql-server • php • php-mysql Started httpd and mysql Changed permission on /var/www/html folder through chmod 777 html/ The Apache server is working fine because i can see default through localhost The problem is that I have placed an index.php page in html folder but it is not opening through localhost. All I get is a blank page. I guess if I can't open such a simple page, my Wordpress install won't work either. I am new to Linux so please be kind with phrases and terms. Details would be really helpful. I have attached some files for your reference. Looking forward to your kind help. TC.
I hope that you have some content within that index.php file? I always suggest, instead of using the default Apache folder, that you create a new user, and have Apache serve pages using the userdir option. I find that it helps to keep things organized. Another alternative would be to create a new directory under /var/www/html, such as /var/www/html/site1/, and point your browser to that page. If it still does not work, make sure you consult your error_log for Apache.
Hey Chris thanks for your attention and reply. I deployed Wordpress to /var/www/html yesterday. It creates a new directory as u asked me to do but I am unable to see any wordpress pages too. Yes, my sample page did have phpinfo(). I have installed wordpress/wpmu before on ubuntu with XAMPP before successfully. But this time I want to avoid XAMPP and do everything from scratch. Is it possible that Apache is considering any other directory as it's default web directory? I will sure post my error_log once I reach my PC. Thanks again.
[Thu Mar 18 03:11:05 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Thu Mar 18 03:11:05 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Thu Mar 18 03:11:05 2010] [notice] Digest: done [Thu Mar 18 03:11:05 2010] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads. [Thu Mar 18 03:11:05 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Mar 18 03:12:03 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/ [Thu Mar 18 03:12:04 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico [Thu Mar 18 03:12:07 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico [Thu Mar 18 03:17:34 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/ [Thu Mar 18 03:18:21 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:18:21 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:19:33 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:19:33 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:19:36 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:19:36 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:19:48 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/ [Thu Mar 18 03:20:01 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:20:01 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:20:27 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:20:27 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:20:59 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:20:59 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:21:10 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: file permissions deny server access: /var/www/html/index.html [Thu Mar 18 03:24:45 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/ [Thu Mar 18 03:24:47 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/ [Thu Mar 18 03:28:50 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:28:50 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:28:51 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico [Thu Mar 18 03:28:54 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico [Thu Mar 18 03:28:54 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:28:54 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:28:59 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:28:59 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:09 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:09 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:11 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:11 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:18 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:18 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:39 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Mar 18 03:29:39 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Thu Mar 18 03:29:40 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Thu Mar 18 03:29:40 2010] [notice] Digest: done [Thu Mar 18 03:29:40 2010] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads. [Thu Mar 18 03:29:40 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Mar 18 03:29:43 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:43 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:46 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:46 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:50 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:29:50 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:30:17 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Mar 18 03:30:27 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Thu Mar 18 03:30:28 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Thu Mar 18 03:30:28 2010] [notice] Digest: done [Thu Mar 18 03:30:28 2010] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads. [Thu Mar 18 03:30:28 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Mar 18 03:30:34 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:30:34 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:30:36 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:30:36 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:30:39 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:30:39 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 03:30:53 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/ [Thu Mar 18 03:34:14 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/server-status [Thu Mar 18 03:45:13 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/server-status [Thu Mar 18 04:15:02 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/ [Thu Mar 18 04:17:39 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/ [Thu Mar 18 04:18:26 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 04:18:26 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 04:18:28 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 04:18:28 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 04:18:31 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 04:18:31 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 04:18:32 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 04:18:32 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 04:31:53 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/ [Thu Mar 18 04:32:51 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/wordpress-mu [Thu Mar 18 04:33:10 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/wordpress-mu [Thu Mar 18 04:33:20 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/wordpress-mu [Thu Mar 18 04:52:42 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 04:52:42 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 04:53:02 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 [Thu Mar 18 04:53:02 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed opening '/var/www/html/index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0
Do you have shell access to the server? If so, can you paste the output of : ls -l /var/www/html/index.php
u know what.. u are a genius. IT WORKED. i know it's not a biggie for you but it's for me. In past 5 days, I till date have made 5 new VM for this thing and ultimately it worked. Many many thanks.