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Meghdeep Ray
Meghdeep Ray

Reputation: 5537

Apache2: Index.html Loads on IP but not on Domain Name (Ubuntu)

I made an AWS EC2 Instance and get an Elastic IP.
The Elastic IP was used to set a Domain Name (Bought from GoDaddy) to the AWS EC2 Instance.
The EC2 Instance is running an Apache2 server.

According to the manual, I'm supposed to replace index.html in /var/www/html/ with the index.html of my own, which I did.

When I use the Elastic IP, the index.html page that I set is displayed.
However when I use the Domain Name, for some reason it gives me the default apache2 page, even though that file no longer exists since it was overwritten. I can access the index.html with DomainName.in/index.html.

Simply put :
- DomainName.in gives apache2 default index.html which shouldn't exist anymore
- DomainName.in/index.html gives the page that I want to show up
- ElasticIP and ElasticIP/index.html both give the page I want to show up

How can I make it so that just typing the Domain Name in the browser will take me to the index.html page that I want it to go to ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1436

Answers (2)

Meghdeep Ray
Meghdeep Ray

Reputation: 5537

Ok so it turns out everything is fine, but the changes take time to propagate through the DNS for some reason.
The changes register after about half an hour.

Upvotes: 1

soren468
soren468

Reputation: 319

You need to set DirectoryIndex in your virtualhost configuration which is located here: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

If that is not where your config file is located, you can find it by running: /usr/sbin/apache2 -V | grep SERVER_CONFIG_FILE

<virtualhost *:80>

  ServerName  domain.com
  ServerAlias www.domain.com

  # Index file and Document Root (where the public files are located)
  DirectoryIndex home.html index.html
  DocumentRoot /var/www

</virtualhost>

Upvotes: 3

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