Question
Apache alternate between default page and home page
- Posted on April 7, 2017
- ApacheUbuntu 16.04
Asked by Jonathan Batista
I have droplet running Ubuntu 16.04 and LAMP stack
I have 3 sites enabled: one at /var/www/html (default apache config) two at /var/www/others/SITE/public_html
My sites are showing well, but one of then sometimes shows my site and sometimes shows apache default page
Notice, there is no default page at /var/www/html/index.html because I my first site are installed there. All said, my ‘It Works’ page is the Digital Ocean version, instead the regular apache (that is sometimes shown on my site).
You can check this behaviour at: drg.adv.br
When I open a private window the website sometimes shows the apache default page, I close the page, open private window again and my regular website.
My apache conf:
cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/drg.adv.br.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName drg.adv.br
ServerAlias www.drg.adv.br
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/others/drg.adv.br/public_html
<Directory /var/www/others/drg.adv.br/public_html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
Ls to site folder:
ls /var/www/others/drg.adv.br/public_html/
css font images index.htm index.html
What I’m missing?
This should be due to high acess to the site?
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@JonathanBatista
Testing your site on Chrome + Safari on MacOS and Chrome, FireFox (Dev), and IE on Windows 10, I’m not able to reproduce the issue when visiting the site, whether I’m using a normal browser window or a private window.
That being said, for
DirectoryIndex, unless you need to allow each type, I’d simply reduce those to what’s needed and I would start with the default for the site.So if all your files are HTML files:
If you’re mixing HTML and PHP:
etc.
For me, at least on the user end, your
index.htmlandindex.htmfiles are showing the same thing, so I’d simply rely onindex.htmlunless there’s a need for theindex.htmfile.I’ve sent ~ 50 requests to drg.adv.br and it’s never the default page. Clear your browser cache.