PHP Not running on specific directories [closed]

Question

Ok. This is a pretty weird error:

I made a folder named 'hello' at /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ with hello.php. Then i created an Alias that told /hello would go to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/hello. This worked out.

Then i tried to make a VHost, which worked as well:

Alias /hello /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/hello
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin noobletadmin@YYYY.com
    DocumentRoot "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/hello"
    ServerName comercial.YYYY.com
    ServerAlias ot.YYYY.com
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 .php
    AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
    <Directory /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/hello/>
        DirectoryIndex index.php
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

But then i read that sites-enabled/ was only meant for a SymLink of what is inside sites-available so I mv sites-*e/hello sites-available/hello and made a2ensite hello and that's when all hell broke loose.

Before, PHP worked fine and the "hello" worked out pretty fly - now it's just like there's no PHP there. The PHP's fine since it's a copy of the local files i have. No errors show up.. Anywhere. I tried /var/log/apache/ and nothing related to any directory that i'm working with spawns.

Also, when moving the file around (yes, i tried different locations), i noticed that my public_html has the following permission scheme:

drwxrwxr-x.  8 5500 www-data 4096 May  3 12:08 domain1_com
drwxrwxrwx   2 root root     4096 May  2 17:25 _cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root     4096 May 17 14:15 comercial_YYYY_com
drwxrwxr-x.  6 5500 www-data 4096 May  3 11:47 domain2_com
drwxrwxr-x.  6 5500 www-data 4096 May  2 17:25 domain3.pt
drwxr-xr-x   7 5500 www-data 4096 May  3 17:55 orcamento_YYYY_com
drwxrwxr-x.  6 5500 www-data 4096 May 13 18:48 domain4_pt
drwxr-xr-x   3 5500 www-data 4096 May 17 11:40 to_domain5_com
drwxrwxr-x.  8 5500 www-data 4096 May 13 18:03 YYYYY.com
drwxrwxr-x. 19 5500 www-data 4096 May  3 11:20 domain5.com
drwxrwxr-x.  6 5500 www-data 4096 May  2 17:25 domain6.pt

But I don't have SELinux on. I know this because the answer to sestatus is -bash: sestatus: command not found -- I'm on Debian Squeeze -- but php doesn't work on folders that don't have the dot permission (.) (the SELinux thingy).

And, since I don't seem to have SELinux I really don't know how or what happened. (I know, thought, all domains are a copy-pasta from another server i was on)

I'm at loss here. Please shed some light on my path?

Answer 1

This is the wrong way to set-up Apache. Your sites-available and sites-enabled directories are for virtual host configurations only, not your website's content files. These should be stored in /var/www or a directory of your choice.

Your AddType and DirectoryIndex directives should be merged into your main Apache configuration at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf.

Example:

/etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain.com:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin myadmin@mydomain.com
  DocumentRoot "/var/www/mydomain.com"
  ServerName mydomain.com
  <Directory /var/www/mydomain.com/>
    Options -Indexes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

This file is then sym-linked to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mydomain.com.

Your website data is then stored in /var/www/mydomain.com.