I have a one-click lamp stack droplet, and have no problem viewing live files like example.com/index.html , but can't figure out how to get it to work from www.example.com/index.html it doesn't even 404, I get the default search results from my ISP for broken urls.

I looked into potentially using .htaccess files for this purpose, but it seems that's not the 'correct' way to go about getting this to work