Redirect IP address to Domain name Apache

Hello!

Since I might host several static websites on the same droplet I’ve used apache’s virtual host. As a result, in my /var/www I have folders that correspond the domain name. For example: /var/www/example.com/public and /var/www/another.com/public.

in my sites-available (/etc/apache2/sites-available) I have:

• 000-default.conf
• default-ssl.conf
• example.com.conf
• another.com.conf

example.com.conf and another.com.conf are configured just fine. They redirect to the desired folder in /var/www and everything works perfectly fine. However, when I try to access my IP address directly, it points me to /var/www/html because that’s how it’s set in 000-default.conf.

I’ve edited 000-default.conf and changed its DocumentRoot to be /var/www/example.com/public as I wish this website to be the “main” website when requesting the domain.

As expected, it works just fine. However, I’ve noticed that it keeps the IP address in the URL. I tried several things to make it change the URL to example.com just as if I was accessing example.com from the URL directly and not the IP address.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get it work. Any idea how I can implement it without using some “hacks” such as directing the IP address to /var/www/html and store in there a .htaccess that will redirect me to example.com. I would like to store that logic in the 000-default.conf file.

Thanks in advance!