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Need to redirect from Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page to home page in wordpress

Posted on November 18, 2020

I have a subdomain like https://faq.example.com/faq this page works fine. changed URL like main domain https://example.com/faq this also works fine. But when I go to this page https://faq.example.com it shows Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page like below,



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Hi @saravanan181196,

You need to create a vhost file for your subdomain faq.example.com and specify where it should load. You can follow this tutorial to create your vhost file, you just need to replace the values with your own such as domain, documentroot path, etc.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-18-04

Regards, KFSys

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