Welcome to Your New Home Page!
Author: johnie@debian.org (Johnie Ingram)
Description: The hompage from the initial installation of Apache.

# Welcome to Your New Home in Cyberspace!

This is a placeholder page installed by the Debian release of the Apache Web server package, because no home page was installed on this host. You may want to replace this as soon as possible with your own web pages, of course....

Unless you changed its configuration, the server is configured as follows:

- Configuration files can be found in `/etc/apache`.
- The `DocumentRoot`, which is the directory under which all your HTML files should exist, is set to `/var/www`.
- CGI scripts are looked for in `/usr/lib/cgi-bin`, which is where Debian packages will place their scripts.
- Log files are placed in `/var/log/apache`, and will be rotated daily.
- Files cached by the proxy server are stored in `/var/spool/apache` (but the proxy service is not enabled by default).
- The default directory index is `index.html`, meaning that requests for a directory `/foo/bar/` will give the contents of the file `/var/www/foo/bar/index.html` if it exists (assuming that `/var/www` is your `DocumentRoot`).
- User directories are enabled, and user documents will be looked for in the `public_html` directory of the users' homes.

All standard Apache modules are available with this release and can be chosen with the `apacheconfig` script. Installing a new module on your system is just a matter of compiling it (with the apache-dev package) and adding a line to your `httpd.conf` configuration file.

More documentation on Apache can be found on:

- The Apache documentation stored on your server.
- The Apache project server.
- The ApacheWeek server.
- The NCSA server which documents the NCSA httpd from which the Apache server is derived.

You can also consult the list of World Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions for information.

If you find a bug in this Apache package, or in Apache itself, please forward it to the maintainer of this package who will take appropriate action. Instructions on a formal way of doing that, and the list of known bugs of this package, can be found on the Debian bug tracking system.

Thanks for using this package, and congratulations for your choice of a Debian system!

JLI, 10 Feb 97.