What did you edit exactly? Anyway, what it says is put some files in /var/www/html/ and you should get them instead of the default welcome page. If you don't have an index.html page there (in /var/www/html/index.html) and the configuration prevents one from being generated automatically, perhaps you want to change the configuration so it is generated automatically.

Coincidentally, also check that the permissions of the files allow reading by the Apache user (www or www-data perhaps?) -- simply making them world-readable is usually acceptable.

era,

If putting some files in /var/www/html/ can be accomplished via FTP, I am seeing no such directory in httpsdocs nor httpdocs.

As for changes made in SSH, notice the removal of # before the last several entries AND the addition of www.mydomain.com (domain being what my domain would be).

I can design and program all day long, but not this stuff. It makes me very tired.

John

The addition of www.mydomain.com is definitely wrong, you should take that out. If the other lines were commented out before, then they were not the ones which were responsible for giving you the default welcome page -- look elsewhere, perhaps?

The path /var/www/html is relative to the root, not underneath a different directory such as httpsdocs or httpdocs. Perhaps you have additional configuration which invalidates what it says in the default welcome page, but give it a shot -- as root, create /var/www/html/index.html world readable, and see if it changes what you see when you connect.

Sample content for /var/www/html/index.html:

... just in case you can't come up with something better to put there.