[Xitami] Weird Linux Behviour

[Francis Turner]

If I'm missing something blindingly obvious in linux then feel free to 
tell me I'm an idiot, I freely admit to being less knowledgable about it.

I just started playing with the web-based admin and then manually 
editing the defaults.cfg file of my Xitami server on Linux. The file is 
pretty trivial (to put it mildly) but in the process of editing it or 
something I seem to have removed the ability to see the webroot! The 
server now gives me a 404 error when I go any page off the ./webpages/ 
directory but just to confuse me pages got to by alias do work! I can 
even have an alias of root which is / and from there navigate to the 
 xitami/webpages directory and when I do I get the default,htm file 
displayed.

In other words http://host/ gives 404 and 
http://host/root/<path>/webpages/ where <path> is the correct path gives 
me the page I expect to be displayed by http://host/ !

A couple of times in mucking around with it - but still not adding a 
webpages line I get to see '/' as my default page. No idea how or why! 
If I stop and restart the server all is fine until I make a few changes 
then it all goes mad again. This is the same with both the real 2.5b5 
version and the one ai made the 1 line change to

Francis

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