404 Not Found Error when trying to access localhost on local LAMP server

Question

I'm running Ubuntu. My Apache2 default file looks like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www/
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
                AllowOverride None
                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

I have this file called Index.php in /var/www/

<?
phpinfo();
?>

When I access http://localhost/ in my browser, I'm getting the 404 Not Found error:

The requested URL / was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

What am I doing wrong? This actually worked when I first setup LAMP but it's not working now.

Solution 1

Have a look in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled. It seems like my upgrade to 10.10 has wiped the symlinks from that directory. Try symlinking default to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default

Solution 2

Check out error log (tail /var/log/apache2/error.log) in order to find out exact path that Apache tries to find.