On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote: > > I have a WordPress site that works. If my > > /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/sitename.conf file is set with the > > "DirectoryIndex index.php" directive, all is well, and pointing a > > web-browser to http://sitename.org loads the sitename's index.php file > as it > > should. > > > > But I need to temporarily put up a dummy site, consisting of just a very > > simply index.html file. That's easy enough; I create the index.html file, > > and then change the sitename.conf file to "DirectoryIndex index.html" and > > restart Apache2. All is good. > > > > But I still need to manually be able to get to the full-blown .php-based > > site. When I web-browse to sitename/index.php, it reroutes to > > sitename/index.html. If I change the .conf file to "DirectoryIndex > > index.html index.php" and restart Apache2, that doesn't help. > > > > It seems I can serve index.html OR index.php, but not both at the same > time > > (depending on the URL entered into the web-browser's URL bar). > > > > Bonus points after getting this to work: Adding a button in the > "index.html" > > file that allows the viewer to "Click here to get to Full Site" that > points > > to "index.php". > > > > I've been googling all morning and part of last night to figure this out, > > with no joy. Thanks for any help you can throw my way! > > one idea: > > <virtualhost *:80> > ... > DirectoryIndex index.html index.php > </virtualhost> > > # Access via an ssh tunnel. > <virtualhost 127.0.0.1:80> > ... > DirectoryIndex index.php > </virtualhost> > I'm not understanding how to make this work. I added: <virtualhost 127.0.0.1:80> DirectoryIndex index.php </virtualhost> to the bottom of my sitename.conf file, and successfully restarted Apache2, but I can't figure out what to do from there. -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
