Thanks for the tip. Had to lookup what that was. I did not change it knowingly, it's a recent clean install of ubuntu gutsy server I am using. Looking at webmin the server pid file was set to /var/run/apache2.pid...I put it to default but that did not make a difference..I'm stabbing in the dark, not knowing what I am doing really... That reminds me the one thing I did was I installed a dokuwiki package via aptitude that i think installed apache2...this was before I just downloaded the tar and got dokuwiki working fine. I think this package added apache2-default directory to my /var/www/, I deleted it the other day when I was trying to solve this problem but that did not help either. There was a hidden .htaccess file in /var/www (see below), which I deleted, but that did not help. Thanks, Tom. /var/www/.htaccess: ## Enable this to restrict editing to logged in users only ## You should disable Indexes and MultiViews either here or in the ## global config. Symlinks maybe needed for URL rewriting. #Options -Indexes -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks ## make sure nobody gets the htaccess files <Files ~ "^[\._]ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy All </Files> ## Uncomment these rules if you want to have nice URLs using ## $conf['userewrite'] = 1 - not needed for rewrite mode 2 #RewriteEngine on # ## Not all installations will require the following line. If you do, ## change "/dokuwiki" to the path to your dokuwiki directory relative ## to your document root. #RewriteBase /dokuwiki # ## If you enable DokuWikis XML-RPC interface, you should consider to ## restrict access to it over HTTPS only! Uncomment the following two ## rules if your server setup allows HTTPS. #RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on #RewriteRule ^lib/exe/xmlrpc.php$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] # #RewriteRule ^_media/(.*) lib/exe/fetch.php?media=$1 [QSA,L] #RewriteRule ^_detail/(.*) lib/exe/detail.php?media=$1 [QSA,L] #RewriteRule ^_export/([^/]+)/(.*) doku.php?do=export_$1&id=$2 [QSA,L] #RewriteRule ^$ doku.php [L] #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d #RewriteRule (.*) doku.php?id=$1 [QSA,L] #RewriteRule ^index.php$ doku.php 2008/4/2 周才淇(Choicky Chou) <zhoucaiqi@xxxxxxxxx>: > "not found on this server"? Maybe you applied a wrong .htaccess rule? > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:56 PM, tom corcoran <osssoftware@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > This is a real head scratcher for me. I download the 31 March RC and > > reinstalled. > > > > Going to dokuwiki still gives a 404 error - "The requested URL > > /dokuwiki/ was not found on this server." > > > > tom@server:/var/www$ ls -all > > total 16 > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-04-02 10:47 . > > drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2008-02-25 10:22 .. > > drwxrwxr-x 7 www-data www-data 4096 2008-03-31 19:11 dokuwiki > > drwxr-xr-x 15 www-data www-data 4096 2007-11-15 08:01 dotproject > > > > I have carried out the permission instructions many times > > http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:install:permissions > > > > I'm hoping on of ye gurus might be able to spot the issue. > > > > Thanks, Tom. > >