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Even though I have files placed in my var/www/ folder and apache2 is running, I don't get any files listed. Also I can't access any files directly and inserting an index.html file does nothing.

I'm on trusty 64

Andreas Hartmann
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In 14.04 the default DocumentRoot is not /var/www/ but /var/www/html/.

You can change that in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf (or whatever site config you re using).

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Florian Diesch
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  • Thanks, that solved it. I'm shocked to see that they changed it? Was there a good reason to do so? – Andreas Hartmann May 05 '14 at 20:43
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    When you have multiple virtual hosts it is common to use sub folders of /var/www/ for each host. In that case /var/www/ as DocumentRoot may make information available that you want want to keep private. Thus it is a bad default. – Florian Diesch May 05 '14 at 20:53