Apache: The requested URL / was not found on this server. Apache - php

Question

I've installed Apache 2.2 server and PHP 5.3 on Windows XP SP3. After the initial install, Apache loaded the test page, i.e.,
http:/localhost (C:/Program Files/Apache2.2/htdocs/index.html) showed "It works!".
After configuring Apache and installing PHP, trying to load http:/localhost/phptest.php i.e. (C:/testsite/htdocs/phptest.php).
But this throws an error:
Not Found. The requested URL /phptest.php was not found on this server.
I also get the same error now loading
http://localhost
httpd.conf edits:
ServerName localhost:80
DocumentRoot "C:/testsite/htdocs"
<Directory "C:/testsite/htdocs">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</IfModule>
LoadModule php5_module "c:/testsite/php/php5apache2_2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
PHPIniDir "C:/testsite/php"
File php.ini edits:
include_path = ".;C:\testsite\php\includes"
extension_dir = "C:/testsite/php/ext/"
System path:
The PHP directory was added to the Windows path, e.g.
PATH=C:\Windows\System32;C:\many_dir;C:\testsite\php
The only errors in the Apache error.log are:
Warning: DocumentRoot [C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2 /docs/dummy-host.localhost] does not exist
Warning: DocumentRoot [C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/docs/dummy-host2.localhost] does not exist
Warning: DocumentRoot [C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/docs/dummy-host.localhost] does not exist
Warning: DocumentRoot [C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/docs/dummy-host2.localhost] does not exist
The Apache service restarts successfully and is running. I can't find anything amiss. Can anyone spot any stupid errors?

Answer 1

Try changing Deny from all to Allow from all in your conf and see if that helps.

Answer 2

In httpd.conf file you need to remove #
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
after removing # line will look like this:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
And Apache restart

Answer 3

I had the same problem, but believe it or not is was a case of case sensitivity.
This on localhost:
http://localhost/.../getdata.php?id=3
Did not behave the same as this on the server:
http://server/.../getdata.php?id=3
Changing the server url to this (notice the capital D in getData) solved my issue.
http://localhost/.../getData.php?id=3

Answer 4

Non-trivial reasons:
if your .htaccess is in DOS format, change it to UNIX format (in Notepad++, click Edit>Convert )
if your .htaccess is in UTF8 Without-BOM, make it WITH BOM.