We finally figured it out.  For some reason, the .htaccess file was explicity overriding DirectoryIndex to point to license.txt.  I have no idea why, since I just uploaded the standard Drupal file (or at least I thought I did).  But at least it's fixed.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Steve

lists-drupal wrote: 
you can have this directive at both the global as well as the
virtual host level. make certain that you're looking at the
correct one(s).  [i don't remember if this directive is allowed
in the .htaccess file, but you may want to double check there.
you may also have a conf.d directory (under httpd). the php.conf
file should have this set correctly for what you're after, but
check other of the .conf files in that directory.]

check your server logs to make certain that you're where you
think you are when being served the gnu license page.



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Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:37:47 PM -0700
From: Steve Edwards <killshot91@comcast.net>
To: Drupal Support <support@drupal.org>
Subject: Re: [support] GNU License displayed instead of home
    
page
  
Here is what already exists in httpd.conf:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml
index.php4 index.php3 index.phtml index.cgi

I also added

DirectoryIndex index.php

to my VirtualHost section and reloaded httpd, but no change.

Steve

lists-drupal wrote:
    
You need to "fix" the httpd.conf

  DirectoryIndex

directive.

If your default directory indexes are always index.php, then
you need to set that as the first (and maybe only) entry in
the list. If you want index.php to be used if it's there, but
index.htm/.html used if it's there but no index.php, then you
should have something like:

  DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm


[you'll need to restart apache after making this change.]

  - Rick



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Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:54:33 AM -0700
From: Steve Edwards <killshot91@comcast.net>
To: Drupal Support <support@drupal.org>
Subject: [support] GNU License displayed instead of home page

As some of you may remember from a previous thread, I had
some Apache issues on a new site with clean URLs.  We
eventually got the httpd.conf file updated correctly  (we
were missing FollowSymLinks), and we can now get to all the
links - except the home page.  So basically, it's reversed
from before.  When I go to www.mysite.com, I get the text of
the GNU public license instead of the home page.  If I go to
mysite.com/index.php, I get the home page just fine.  I
realize this is more of an Apache issue, but I'm curious to
see if anyone has come across this issue before and if they
know how to fix it.

Thanks.

Steve

    
        
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