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Posted February 10, 2020 818 views
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I have tried following every tutorial I can find and I can’t seem to get the WordPress one click setup to serve files from a different directory besides the default /var/www/html.

I have used a2dissite, a2ensite, reloaded, restarted apache. The properties in the config file ServerName, etc.

One interesting detail is that when I ran a2dissite 000-default.conf came back with an error to the effect that the corresponding file in sites-enabled was not symlinked. Which is weird since creating new .conf files in sites-available does seem to symlink them into sites-enabled. I have setup these files on other droplets and had no problems. Is this something unique to this pre configured droplet?

I scrapped my first droplet - I had deleted all the original default .conf files in frustration and apache was, in my opinion, still using one of them. It was looking for a directory that I had deleted, which though an error, but that directory was not pointed to in any of the configurations that were supposed to be active.

This is my /etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain.conf file. 

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin ben@mydomain
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html.old
    ServerName mydomain
    ServerAlias www.mydomain
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    <Directory /var/www/html.old/>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The only way I found to serve something else is to change the contents of /var/www/html. This is not ideal, since my next move is to get multiple sites running with subdomains. As of right now I am getting by but starting to get frustrated with the learning curve.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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bobbyiliev February 10, 2020

Hello,

What I could suggest is the following:

  • First run an Apache config test to make sure that there are no problems with your configuration:
apachectl -t
  • Share the output of the following command here:
ls -l /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
  • Access your site and right after that check your Apache error log:
tail -100 /var/log/apache2/error.log
  • Make sure that your Apache user has permissions to read and write to the /var/www/html.old folder:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html.old

Let me know how it goes!
Regards,
Bobby

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  • benjaminADK February 10, 2020

    I think you are on the right track. I am work right now and don’t have ssh set up here, I will try your advice when I get home.

    I must have missed the part about permissions. I know for a fact that after I used scp to transfer my local WordPress files to the server that the directories were owned by me. My big problem is I’m a newb. I know I want to check a log but I have no idea where it is for the most part. I don’t know all the commands I need to know, and my understanding of the whole system is incomplete. Learning curve.

    I guess now that I think about, my other droplets were all Node based running Nginx, not Apache, so I was wrong that I had configured Apache before.

    Thanks for the quick response and I will report back soon.

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  • benjaminADK February 11, 2020

    So I got it working. At least a single site (other than default site) that I uploaded with scp. It seemed to be a combination of two things.

    1. I permissions on the new WordPress files. The achieve_medical is the WordPress I uploaded and html.old was more of a test case for configs.
    drwxr-xr-x  6 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 11 03:48 achieve_medical/
drwxr-xr-x  5 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 10 12:27 html/
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 28 23:01 html.old/
    1. When I ran sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf I was getting an error/message basically saying it was refusing to delete the sites-enabled/000-default.conf file. This is how One Click install shipped. For whatever reason, Apache wanted to use this default config despite me using sudo a2ensite mydomain.conf. I just deleted the default configs and it worked.

    apachectl -t

    When I try to run the config test I get this. But the https seems to work and the browser says the cert is good. 

    AH00526: Syntax error on line 16 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mydomain.com-le-ssl.conf:
SSLCertificateFile: file '/etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com-0001/fullchain.pem' does not exist or is empty
Action '-t' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

    ls -l /etc/apache2/sites-enabled

    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Feb 11 04:07 mydomain.com-le-ssl.conf -> /etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain.com-le-ssl.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Feb 11 03:40 mydomain.com.conf -> ../sites-available/mydomain.com.conf

    The only thing of note in the apache error logs is:

    AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

    In any event I am pleased just to have the site I want up and running. Thanks for the help!

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ZoomAdmin February 10, 2020

Hi, if you’re a newbie, sometimes it’s better to use a control panel such as webmin/cpanel to configure the apache configs. You can also use our cloud based panel called ZoomAdmin, we have a 30 day trial. ZA will also help with configuring SSH etc.

hope that helps.

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