I recently got my site up and running following these tutorials:
How to Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt
How to Install WordPress
My problem is that despite refusing standard HTTP connections, typing my domain simply takes me to my WordPress site. If I manually type “https://” before my domain, I’m taken to my HTML index/test page. What’s happening here?
Can you post your VirtualHost configurations for both HTTP (port 80) and HTTPS (port 443)?
@hansen
port 80:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@domain.org
ServerName domain.org
ServerAlias www.domain.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.org/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =domain.org [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.domain.org
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
port 443:
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin admin@domain.org
ServerName domain.org
ServerAlias www.domain.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.org/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.org/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.org/privkey.pem
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
Now that I look at it, I think I have to set the DocumentRoot to my WordPress directory, correct?
Correct, the DocumentRoot should be your web root, so in your case it’s the WordPress directory.
And you can change your <VirtualHost *:80> block to this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName domain.org
ServerAlias www.domain.org
Redirect permanent / https://www.domain.org/
</VirtualHost>
Thank you! And just to clarify, I simply change the DocumentRoot to where files like wp-settings.php are? (In this case in /var/www/html/?)
@tylerferguson
Correct, your DocumentRoot should point to the directory where you have your wp-config.php, so that would be:
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
I followed these steps, redirecting the 443 config to /var/www/html, but now I’m getting a 404 error when I go to my domain. I did all these steps before configuring wordpress on the droplet - is that the cause, or might it be something else?