How to remove the Novell Welcome web page on OES Linux

  • Document ID:3773758
  • Creation Date:24-Jul-2007
  • Modified Date:27-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      Open Enterprise Server

Environment

Novell Open Enterprise Server (Linux based)

Situation

New install of OES/Linux. Web browser to the server IP or DNS name (http:///welcome) will display a Novell Open Enterprise Server welcome / features page. Finding a way to remove that is not intuitively obvious and requires an understanding of the apache underlying config files and the usage for the alias /welcome. Once found the fix is simple.

Resolution

Remove the following symbolic links. The welcome pages will no longer be available.
/etc/opt/novell/httpd/sslconf.d/welcome-apache.conf
/etc/opt/novell/httpd/conf.d/welcome-apache.conf
Apache can be restarted as desired to read the config files again and remove the /welcome alias.

Additional Information

The apache configuration file uses the commands :

Include /etc/opt/novell/httpd/conf.d/*.conf

and

Include /etc/opt/novell/httpd/sconf.d/*.conf

to include those symbolic links into the SSL encrypted and non-SSL encrypted configurations.