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I recently installed apache and php on a ubuntu vps and i'd like to be able to make web requests from an iPhone app to php files on the server namely files inside the www folder ex:'var/www/myfolder/echo.php' by ways of a web request from the app to the URL 'http://ipaddress/myfolder/echo.php' or whatever the correct url is. I do not know the URL i need to type in to access the echo.php file. can anybody shed some light on this confusing situation I'm in? ps. this is my first time working with servers

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You need to check what your DocumentRoot is set to in your Apache configuration.

So if /var/www is the DocumentRoot, which is the default on Ubuntu, then your URL will be http://machinename/myfolder/echo.php, which is what you have.

Before doing any coding on the iPhone, test the .php file in a web browser.

Any errors during development and testing, then check the Apache error log (/var/log/apache/error.log).

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  • thanks for clarifying that for me! i tried testing the php file at that url and i got a 404 error. –  Sep 03 '14 at 09:13
  • @user2038460 OK, as I explained, check the Apache error log and then the configuration and get it working before touching a line of iOS code. – trojanfoe Sep 03 '14 at 09:16
  • yea the error logs display no errors, the access log just shows me that there indeed was a 404. i'm testing with safari not on iOS yet. i checked the document root and its var/www . the permissions of the files and folders I'm trying to access are all 711. is that what is stopping me? –  Sep 03 '14 at 09:31
  • @user2038460 Well I cannot provide a complete guide to how to configure an Apache server, but the directory is `/var/www` and not `var/www` and a 404 error should appear in the `error.log` as well as the `access.log`. These logs will tell you why a request could not be satisfied and it's possible the error is coming from the `.php` file itself, so you will need to ensure php logging is enabled as well. – trojanfoe Sep 03 '14 at 09:37
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consult https://stackoverflow.com/a/23175981/2038460 solved my problem! i just had to specify the document root to actually be the folder i was working on, i though it'd be enough just having it at/var/www but apparently not, had to be /var/www/folder

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