By craig198396
I followed this tut to get virtual hosts up and running on the default DO LAMP stack. So far, so good. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts
When I visit my IP address in a browser, I see all the domains associated with the droplet. It’d be nice (and potentially more secure?) to have that data hidden away from public view. Is this possible, and what’s the best way to go about it?
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You should not create domain root directories in /var/www <br>but should use more secure location. like <br> <br>/home/user/domains/domain1.com <br>/home/user/domains/domain2.com <br>/home/user/domains/domain3.com <br>
You can either add an empty index.html file in /var/www or set apache’s virtualhost’s DocumentRoot to /var/www/default: <br> <br><pre>nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default</pre> <br>Edit DocumentRoot and set it to /var/www/default. <br> <br>Create /var/www/default: <br><pre>mkdir /var/www/default</pre> <br> <br>Finally, create an empty file in it: <br><pre>touch /var/www/default/index.html<pre> <br> <br>Make sure you restart Apache.
@chemical.sweet - Care to expand on the potential security risk it could have? I’m following https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts which I assume has some kind of ‘best practise’ thinking behind it. <br> <br>@Kamal - Thanks for a useful answer.
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