Good day, I’ve set up my server online over DigitalOcean, I followed their guides on how to set up an Ubuntu 14.04.x x64 server, setting up a LAMP stack, and installing phpMyAdmin. Everything is working fine, the mySite.com shows the apache setup page. However, when I uploaded my new index.html (located at /var/www/html/index.html) file (I renamed the default one to index-default.html) and then refreshed my site, instead of showing my site, it shows Index Of/. I tried mySite.com/index.html and it works. It’s just a bit of a hassle to have the user type in mySite.com/index.html and I know it can work with just mySite.com. I opened up FileZilla to check if this may be caused by the difference of the permissions and ownership, and they were initially different. I updated the permissions and ownership and now they have the same sets.
The permission is -rwxrwxr-x and then the Owner/Group has been set to www-data www-data and now I’m just confused as to how to proceed with this.
Basically I want the site to show my index.html just by going to mySite.com.
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Fixed it.
I ran sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf
And then I saw that it didn’t say index.html. It had index.php twice.
It now reads
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
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