I have hosted a HTML webpage using XAMPP in LAN; I am able to access the webpage from other computers present in the same local network when I use http://IP address:port but unable to access it when I use a custom domain name.
My host file looks like this.
192.168.1.24:90 cohab.com
My httpd-vhosts.config looks as follows.
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.24:90>
ServerAdmin webmaster#www.cohab.com
ServerName www.cohab.com
ServerAlias cohab.com
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/cohab"
</VirtualHost>
My HTML file is present in C:/xampp/htdocs/cohab directory. Where am i going wrong?
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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 ?
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>
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.
I used to access my website directly like so:
100.100.100.100/project1/public
I was also using an edit tool and accessing it like so:
100.100.100.100/tool
I added a subdomain (dev.domain.com) to my A records and updated my apache httpd.conf file like so:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.dev.domain.com
ServerAlias dev.domain.com
ServerAdmin email#domail.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/project1/public
</VirtualHost>
and now I can access my website directly by typing my subdomain: - dev.domain.com.
But since I did that, I cannot access my edit tool the way I used too (100.100.100.100/tool) anymore. It looks like apache is trying to access my website (project1) when I type 100.100.100.100/tool
Is there a way to setup my subdomain so it only access my website located at /var/www/html/project1/public without affecting any other documents I have under /var/www/html/ ??? without affecting, e.g.:
/var/www/html/tool
/var/www/html/project2
/var/www/html/project3
I typed in the following command and got:
# apachectl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 100.100.100.100 for ServerName
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80 www.dev.domain.com (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1021)
Syntax OK
Sorry for asking this question again. Even though this has been asked and discussed quite a bit I cannot seem to find the right solution for a local dev environment using VirtualHost. I am using XAMPP Portable for Windows for dev work but assume this is the same for any other local server with regards to the .htaccess file.
DocumentRoot of VirtualHost is D:\dev\www\ for example.
ServerName is devwork.webdev for example.
HOSTS entry is 127.0.0.1 devwork.webdev.
VirtualHost file does have a default DocumentRoot being DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs". It works just fine.
The projects are each in a folder under D:\dev\www\ for example D:\dev\www\project01\ or D:\dev\www\project02\ and so on and show nicely in the browser when going to devwork.webdev with Options Indexes FollowSymLinks enabled. Apache is not showing any error and the access log file is also OK, things are working.
Now in my HTML when I use Project 01 a click on the link does link me to D:\dev\www\ showing all the projects I have in that folder.
Instead I would like to be linked to the root of the project, being D:\dev\www\project01\ or rather http://devwork.webdev/project01/.
How can I get that to work?
I am looking for a solution to this so that I can do dev work locally and without changing the HTML later FTP the data to the live host's root and it will work.
I have read and tried the following:
http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/redirecting-a-web-folder-directory-to-another-in-htaccess/
https://perishablepress.com/redirect-subdirectory-to-root-via-htaccess/ .htaccess How to redirect root URL to subdirectory files, rewrite to clean URL AND not affect subdomains?
http://alexcican.com/post/how-to-remove-php-html-htm-extensions-with-htaccess/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/990405/1010918
How to redirect /directory/index.html and /directory/index.php to /directory/
Redirecting /directory/index.html to /directory/
with
How to remove .html from URL
and
http://forums.modx.com/thread/77211/endless-friendly-url-redirect-from-subdomain-folder-location
being closest to what I think I need but I must be doing something wrong since I always arrive at the DocumentRoot instead of the folder where the project is kept under the DocumentRoot.
Thank you for any help.
This seems closest:
Add VirtualHost definition for each project you want to access. (I'm
not sure how to do it on XAMPP for Windows).
For example, project01.devwork.webdev...
Set DocumentRoot for this VirtualHost to D:\dev\www\project01...
Add the hostname to your /etc/hosts/ file.
Open http://project01.devwork.webdev/ in your browser.
You should see the application in D:\dev\www\project01, while all URLs
will be based on "/".
What happens in the background:
When you open the URL http://project01.devwork.webdev/ in your browser, it will (as usual) translate it to IP address, but along with the request, it will also send Host header with the entered hostname:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: project01.devwork.webdev
Based on the Host field, Apache will decide which VirtualHost it needs to "pretend" to be, and serve files from the respective direcory.
However, if you need to have index of the projects, you will have to create it manually with full URLs.
An alternative with the given logic would be to simply add a VirtualHost for each project in D:dev\www\projectname by giving it its own domain instead of a subdomain on the host.
There is little difference there now when already editing httpd-vhosts.conf (using XAMP this file is in InstallDir and then in apache\conf\extra )but ideally it makes copying the local HTML to the live server without changing the HTML possible.
So this is something devs doing local work should keep in mind. I certainly will!! Thank you for your help and information.
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/dev/www/newprojectname"
ServerName newdomainname.webdev
ServerAlias www.newdomainname.webdev
ErrorLog "D:/dev/www/log/dev-apache.error.log"
CustomLog "D:/dev/www/log/dev-apache.access.log" common
<Directory "D:/dev/www/newprojectname">
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Require local
# more detailed local
# Require ip 192.168.188
# or the IP from your local network
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I don't have a static IP address so a person recommended that I use no-ip.com
I did and now my website is accessible from external internet yay
The problem now is that my photos aren't showing, I thought this would have been a simple issue
I'm not sure if I have to do something with Virtual Host or...
My domain name is greenace92.ddns.net
I can access my index.html file, that shows up fine but the photos aren't showing
On my httpd.conf file I have
ServerRoot "/usr/local/apache2"
The html files are in htdocs under apache2
So, on virtual host that httpd-vhosts.conf file I have the following
ServerAdmin "jacobcun#ricekidengineer.com"
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/"
ServerName "www.greenace92.ddns.net"
*ricekidengineer.com is my other domain with email configured
I didn't change the error logs from stuck "dummy" stuff
So on my html file for image href's I have
http://www.greenace92.ddns.net/htdocs/images/normalbus-icon-on.png
I assume that www.greenace92.ddns.net is /usr/local/apache2
So I'm just continuing the directory location
Is that correct? What is wrong?
Yeah I don't understand, I even tried three different directories for a few photos, trying directly in apache2, then htdocs, then the images folder
What am I not seeing?
You will have to decide what your want as the domain for your site:
www.greenace92.ddns.net is not setup for your web site
greenace92.ddns.net is the domain setup for your web site.
You either have to
configure no-ip.com to point to the domain www.greenace92.ddns.net
(or)
change your apache ServerName directive to
ServerName "greenace92.ddns.net"
and change the image URLs in your HTML pages from something like
http://www.greenace92.ddns.net/htdocs/images/normalbus-icon-on.png
to
http://greenace92.ddns.net/images/normalbus-icon-on.png
Note: With your current configuration, the 2nd URL mentioned above should already work (It worked when I tested!).
I have a staging server (VPS) that has a dedicated IP address. For example, http://numeric.ip.address/
I can access the the files in the public_html folder by doing the usual tilda thing in the URL - http://numeric.ip.address/~account/
I have a folder I've developed locally that uses root-relative paths to resources, but
when I load the file in the browser, those root-relative URL's jump up in the directory all the way to the root IP address, instead of the public_html folder /~account/.
I realize there are better ways to set up a staging server and I plan to do so in the future, but I'm facing a deadline where it would be really handy to make this work.
I've tried tossing a base href tag in header tags, but that isn't doing the trick.
In Apache, normally you have "VirtualHost" container or .htaccess file. In it, you set your domain and DocumentRoot.
From what you describe, all you need to do is set your DocumenRoot correctly to you root of your site. then in the Browser, you can point to your paths. So if you have folder called "finance" and inside that folder you have document call "report1.pdf", you can put in your browser, example.com/finance/report1.pdf -as long as you have your DocumentRoot and site setup correctly and put the files in correct path, Apache will serve the file.
<VirtualHost 10.1.2.3>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com # not necessary
DocumentRoot /www/docs/host.foo.com
...omitted the <Direcotry> </Directory> stuff
</VirtualHost>