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Originally Posted by FlamesPuck12
I just recently signed up for VPS and I'm trying to configure everything to just host a simple web page as a test but so far no success.
First problem is, I got my domain parked at DNS provided by VPS (using Linode) but for some reason, it displays a different page than the direct IP.
Second, I'm still trying to learn my way around the VPS and I've heard that the main page is in /var/www/index.html. Is this the directory (root/var/www) where all the web pages should be going into?
Thanks
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Assuming you are using a standard web server (probably apache) you can configure your pages to be served from any location. Really not much point in it as far as I am concerned though. That is the default location.
As for your Domain name/IP page display differences, I assume it is similar to how IIS can route a page accessed by a different domain name to a separate page hosted on the same port/server. It is called Host Header in IIS, but there is probably something similar in Apache.
edit: A quick google leads me to believe that you
*might* want to use mod_rewrite to accomplish this.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html Note: I have never used this and never really done anything other than a basic page or prebuilt php package with Apache, so I might be totally wrong. Make sure you do some more research before you blindly start banging in commands.