I installed Apache2 on Ubuntu and put everything in /var/www/html for my linked domain name. Is this where its supposed to be on Apache 2? Its the only place that its been working for me…
But how do I stop my domain (typing in domain.tld) from automatically going to domain.tld/html/? The website displays ok but can’t I just get it to show the contents of the html file (and their subdirectories) and show domain.tld?
I have tried some .htaccess fixes but to no avail. I also have some code in my .htaccess which redirects http:// to https:// and that is at least working now.
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It only seems to be an issue when www. is in front of the address; otherwise it doesn’t redirect. Maybe its because of the ServerName, ServerAlias combo I used?
If your VirtualHost’s DocumentRoot is set to /var/www, you will need to set it to /var/www/html so that http://yourdomain.tld/ maps to /var/www/html instead of /var/www.
Open your VirtualHost file in nano:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/virtual-host
and set DocumentRoot to /var/www/html.
Then restart Apache:
sudo service apache2 restart
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