Question
How to point different domains to different folders?
- Posted January 22, 2017
- ApacheConfiguration ManagementUbuntu
I setup a domain name (bileaf.com) in the DO droplet. I then installed Vesta CP and provided the domain information whenever it asked. When I opened my domain name on the browser it showed me a panel welcome page (not the actual panel admin login but a panel html page saying powered by vesta).
Now, I added two more domains to my DO and now want to point them to different folders. I went through https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts article to setup Apache virtual hosts. But, now whenever I try to go to any of these domains on my browsers it keeps going to the panel page for my first domain.
I dug around a bit and it seems like the panel page is in /home/admin/web/panel.bileaf.com/public_html. Both of the secondly added domains are pointing to this.
Any idea what I am doing wrong and how can I fix this?
Thanks.
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@anuragsharma
You don’t need to remove VestaCP if you need a control panel to manage your domains. Without a CP, you’d need to manually install a LAMP or LNMP stack and do what the CP would do by hand.
That being said, removing VestaCP won’t delete your existing users and domains, so they will still be pointing to the directories they were set to when VestaCP was installed.
VestaCP wasn’t redirecting your domains. It creates a directory for each user and each domain that you create through the control panel. Each domain that is created is given an
index.htmlfile, so it’s not redirecting your domains to a centralindex.html, it’s simply pulling up theindex.htmlfile that resides in each domains’public_htmldirectory.If you substitute your domains in place of
domain01anddomain02above, you’ll see where the index files are.@anuragsharma
From what I’ve read about VestaCP, they recommend against directly modifying Apache config. This is most likely because any changes you make directly will be overwritten by VestaCP the next time that you create a domain or sub-domain, or make any changes that cause changes to be made to Apache config.
That being said, VestaCP uses
/homefor each user. So if you added these domains using the defaultadminuser, your base directory would be/home/adminand each of your domains main directories would be located in/home/admin/web.For example, if you created domain01.com and domain02.com, then their directories would be:
and
and their public_html folders would be:
and
Within each of the public_html directories, there’s an index.html file which is copied over from the main directory. That’s why you’re seeing the Powered By VestaCP when you visit your domains. You need to delete or replace this file and upload your websites files to the public_html directories.