By L Bovski
Hi,
I’m running Wordpress 5.4 on Ubuntu 18.04.1 and Apache/2.4.29.
When I go to example.com I see this empty directory listing.
But www.example.com works fine.
Also working fine is a 301 redirect I have in htaccess. As well as any redirect from example.com/page to www.example.com/page and HTTPS.
It’s only the root non-www. that does this.
Here is my htaccess but maybe this is something to do with a DNS record or even virtual hosts?
I’m not sure where to look next any help would be really appreciated.
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Hi there @ellebovski,
It sounds like that you don’t have your non-www version added to your Apache virtual host.
You need to make sure that you have both the www and the non-www verion specified in your ServerName and ServerAlias lists in your Apache Vhost. To check that you can do the following:
- Open your Apache Vhost with your favorite text editor:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/your_domain.conf
-
Update your ServerName to match your non-www version
-
Add a ServerAlias to match your www version
-
Then run a config test:
- sudo apachectl -t
- If you get
Syntax OKthen restart Apache:
- sudo systemctl restart apache2
Let me know if you have any questions. Regards, Bobby
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