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Matthew Vandenberg
Matthew Vandenberg

Reputation: 87

How to use my new domain from godaddy with my Apache2 server on Raspberry pi

I just purchased a domain from GoDaddy, let's call it example.com. I set it up on GoDaddy to where it forwards people to my home IP Address where my Raspberry Pi hosts my website using Apache2. How can I properly set it up so that it shows example.com in the address bar rather than my home IP address?

Here is my .conf file for my website:

<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.example.com

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html

    # 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
</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1877

Answers (1)

Zak
Zak

Reputation: 7515

If you visited the site via IP address prior to porting and setting a DNS record. You may need to clear your browser and DNS cache. This is how to flush Windows DNS via command line:

ipconfig /flushdns

Note that you MAY have to run cmd as admin.

Upvotes: 2

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