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Praveen
Asked: 2020-04-23 08:56:40 +0800 CST

Apache gives `It works` page instead of home page of site

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My site www.domainname.com loads apache2 'It works' page instead of the expected home page of moode which is located at /var/www/html/moodle. There is an index file index.php inside moodle directory but it is not taken by default. If I go to www.domainname.com/moodle the site homepage comes. The configuration file /etc/apache2/sites-available/domainname.conf is enabled. How to solve this?

<VirtualHost *:80>
    # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
    # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
    # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
    # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
    # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
    # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
    # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
    ServerName www.domainname.com
    ServerAlias domainname.com

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/moodle
    DirectoryIndex "index.php"
    # <Directory /var/www/html/>
    #       AllowOverride All
    # </Directory>  

    # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
    # error, crit, alert, emerg.
    # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
    # modules, e.g.
    #LogLevel info ssl:warn

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
    # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
    # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
    # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
    # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
    #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.domainname.com
 RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

 # vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet
server apache2 webserver 18.04

3 Answers

  1. You will have to disable the example site and enable your moodle site. You can do this by using the a2ensite and a2dissite commands. To enable or disable a site hosted with Apache, you can use the 'a2ensite' and 'a2dissite' commands, respectively. Both commands use essentially the same syntax:

    a2ensite [site]
    a2dissite [site]

    Where [site] is the name of your site's Virtual Host configuration file, located in /etc/apache2/sites-available/, minus the '.conf' extension. For example, if your site's Virtual Host configuration file is called moodle.com.conf and the "It Works!" configuration file is called example.com.conf, then the commands would look like:

    a2ensite moodle.com
    a2dissite example.com

    After that, you can restart Apache by typing sudo systemctl restart apache2 and it should work now.

    (Derived from How do I enable/disable a website hosted with Apache? | Linode Questions)

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  2. It is because you're using the default html directory.

    Move /var/www/html/moodle to /var/www/ 

     mv var/www/html/moodle /var/www

    Change DocumentRoot /var/www/html/moodle to DocumentRoot /var/www/moodle in your domainname.conf

    use a2ensite to enable the site or create a symlink to /etc/apache2/site-enabled/

    a2ensite domainname.conf

    Simply reload apache2 using systemctl reload apache2

    Now this should work as expected.

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  3. Best Answer

    This can be solved by changing the line 

    DirectoryIndex index.php

    to

    DirectoryIndex index.php /moodle/index.php

    in the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/site.conf.

    Source : https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_dir.html

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