I can't seem to view my index.html file.

Posted on February 21, 2016

HOLD ON. I just found my /var/ folder

Hey guys, I’ve recently uploaded the necessary files for my website in my Ubuntu14.04 server. I followed the initialization guide (minus the LAMP installation) so can log in to my FTP, phpMyAdmin, upload files, and make database tables. I also set up a user named angelo according to the guide (instead of demo).

Now, I uploaded the project folder of a sample ExtJS4 website to the following directory:

/root/home/angelo/samples/projectname/

and all the files are inside the projectname folder.

However, when I go to: myWebsite.com/home/angelo/samples/projectname/index.html

I get a 404 telling me that the requested URL was not found in this server. Now, I tried removing the /home then /angelo but to no avail as well.

Can anyone help me with my issue? It seems that I’m overlooking something rather simple/easy but I can’t seem to figure out what it is. Any help is very much appreciated, thank you.

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jarland

February 21, 2016

Hi there!

What you are needing is called a virtual host (or server block, for Nginx). This is what tells the web server to load files from a certain location if called by a certain domain. You can find virtual host guides for Nginx and Apache at these links:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts

Kind Regards, Jarland Platform Support Specialist