Redirect DNS only works for www/html, not for www/html/website
Hello. I have a domain registered with Godaddy.com and I want to have the hosting here on Linode. I redirected the domain as tutorials on Linode said. The problem is that now, if you visit the http://mydomain.com link, only the Ubuntu root folder (www/html) appears.
I also addded the website configuration file into the sites-avilable directory with the <directory> matching the correct path (www/html/mywebsite) but it still does not work.</directory>
How can I correctly point my domain the correct location of the website?
My thought is that I registered here on Linode DNS as default, only leaving the ip address, without adding the subfolder in the path. Should I do that?
Thanks in advance.
Cloud Manager Version: 0.61.0
1 Reply
_Brian
Linode Staff
Hey there,
The DNS record does not need a subfolder in your entry to point to the correct path.
It seems to me like your virtual hosts file or your website configuration file may be misconfigured.
Here are a couple Docs Guides to make sure you've got everything setup properly:
Configure Virtual Hosts
Here is an example of a properly configured vhosts file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example.com/public_html/
ErrorLog /var/www/html/example.com/logs/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/html/example.com/logs/access.log combined
<Directory /path/to/public/website/>
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I really think that one of those two files is the culprit. If you check them and can't figure out the issue, please paste the sanitized contents and we can dig a bit deeper.