After blindly updating Ubuntu, I get 404s on all my localhost installations.

[OrganizedFellow]

I am currently using Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid

 

* Apache 2.4.10

* PHP 5.6.4-4ubuntu6.2

 

Over the past week or two, software updates have been coming every day.

 

Now, I know I should have been more careful and watchful of what gets updated. But now all my ProcessWire localhost installations are broken.

 

All reporting 404s. Admin URLs don't even display.

 

I added this to my vhosts.conf file:

	<Directory /home/me/www/testes.dev/public_html/>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride All 
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

It WORKED!

I went about my work, made some template changes and stuff. All works fine. Then today I start up again and the 404 errors are back.

Apache error log shows nothing.

TOTALLY STUMPED!!!

[rick]

What is your document root set as in sites-enabled? You may need to set the basepath in your htaccess to match.

/testes.dev/public_html/

Is testes spelled correctly?

It is odd that an update would break a previously working configuration, but I don't know what they are updating. I have noticed an increase in updates to 14 recently, but haven't gotten any notices about security issues from various services.

On an unrelated note, I would change Indexes to -Indexes to prevent listing the directory contents, especially on a production server. If I remember correctly, apache will want you to specify either + or - for each item if you specify that flag for one item. In other words, if you use "-" on one option, you need to use either "+" or "-" on all others. So that line would look like

Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews

On another unrelated note I run ubuntu as well. How do you like 15? I'm running 14 LTS and haven't updated to 15.

[OrganizedFellow]

What is your document root set as in sites-enabled? You may need to set the basepath in your htaccess to match.

/testes.dev/public_html/

Is testes spelled correctly?

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/vhosts.conf

Contains all my virtually hosted projects.

Close to 18 of them.

This configuration has worked perfectly for me for years.

[LostKobrakai]

404 Errors would not point to any issue with the configuration per se, but with the url to filesystem (and/or rewrite) mapping. So I'd suggest looking into these things.

[rick]

One other thing. Have you upgraded from apache 2.2 to 2.4?

If so, there are a ton of things that have changed. See here http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/en/upgrading.html

[edit] I see that you are running 2.4

Start here...

<Directory /home/me/www/testes.dev/public_html/>
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride All
  Require all granted
</Directory>

Notice the order deny allow has gone away.