I don't have my vmware snapshots restored yet, so I cannot state this with absolute certainty, but I believe this is what I had before:
root@www-01:~# ls -l /var/www total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 19 2010 cmu.edu drwxr-xr-x 9 1001 root 4096 Feb 1 13:40 html
root@www-01:~# ls -l /var/www/html/ total 44 drwxr-xr-x 2 1001 users 4096 Jul 20 2010 css drwxrwsr-x 4 1001 admin 4096 Aug 18 2010 docs drwxr-xr-x 2 1001 users 4096 Aug 20 2010 images drwxr-xr-x 2 1001 users 4096 Aug 5 2011 include -rw-rw-r-- 1 1001 admin 5108 Jul 28 2014 index.php -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5107 Jul 28 2014 index.php.backup lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jul 27 2010 mediawiki -> /usr/share/mediawiki drwxrwsr-x 4 vanmeeuwen root 4096 Jul 28 2014 releases -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 593 Sep 14 2010 robots.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 1001 users 4096 Nov 23 2010 scripts
After the upgrade to apache2 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.1, there was an index.html in /var/www/html, and it was used preferentially to index.php
I don't have my vmware snapshots restored yet, so I cannot state this with absolute certainty, but I believe this is what I had before:
root@www-01:~# ls -l /var/www
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 19 2010 cmu.edu
drwxr-xr-x 9 1001 root 4096 Feb 1 13:40 html
root@www-01:~# ls -l /var/www/html/ mediawiki
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 2 1001 users 4096 Jul 20 2010 css
drwxrwsr-x 4 1001 admin 4096 Aug 18 2010 docs
drwxr-xr-x 2 1001 users 4096 Aug 20 2010 images
drwxr-xr-x 2 1001 users 4096 Aug 5 2011 include
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1001 admin 5108 Jul 28 2014 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5107 Jul 28 2014 index.php.backup
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jul 27 2010 mediawiki -> /usr/share/
drwxrwsr-x 4 vanmeeuwen root 4096 Jul 28 2014 releases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 593 Sep 14 2010 robots.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 1001 users 4096 Nov 23 2010 scripts
After the upgrade to apache2 2.4.7-1ubuntu4.1, there was an index.html in /var/www/html, and it was used preferentially to index.php