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freebsd and apache... weird default page

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nuttervm

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With a fairly standard freebsd 4.4 install and apache installed as a package, when i access the default web page on that server most of the text comes up as garbage (i assume it's another language not supported by my browser). i looked at the source code of the page and its garbage too. i'm sure any page i wrote would be displayed properly, but i was curious why the package has some non-english language as a default page? anyone else seen this?
 
I thought apache included other languages in its default page but I didnt think the entire thing was in a foreign language... Dunno.
 
If you take a look in Apache's document root, which by default (in FreeBSD 4.4 anyway) is /usr/local/www/data you'll probably see a whole bunch of index.html.foo files ... what's happening is Apache is reading the first one it sees alphabetically. To see the English page you have to rename index.html.en (or whatever it is) to index.html.
 
yep, i looked and that was indeed the issue. i've only installed apache on linux before and have never seen this. for example, on mandrake and redhat they have this spiffy custom page showing the optimizations that they have made to apache etc.

i removed everything except the index.html.en and now i see what i expected. i would have thought my browser would have automatically opened the page with the correct language. hmm

anyhoo, thanks 🙂
 
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