I have a VPS running Ubuntu 13.10 and has an Apache2 website, and whenever I go to the VPS's IP ,I get the default/test page for Apache instead of my website located in /var/www.
It's an html + css website.
Edit: My solution below
3 Answers
Make sure the html home page file is in /var/www, and is called index.html - index.html is the first/default webpage you should get on typing the sites domain name/IP address. All other files can be linked to & from the index.html root/home file.
My solution:
Add a new virtual host for the ip address in the file located at \etc\apache2\sites-available\000-default.conf
as <VirtualHost *:80>
and change ServerName to the IP.
In \etc\apache2\sites-available\default-ssl.conf
(if you have ssl enabled) as
<VirtualHost *:443>
and change ServerName to the IP.
The default apache2 start page is found under /var/www and named index.html. It will run by default whenevr you try to access your webserver(apache2) either by calling or
For your site to run smoothly just put your html and css files inside a directory in /var/www name it mysite for example. Then you can run your default(index.html) file of your site just by locating to /var/www/mysite
