Worpress with apache?

Homelab
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Hey there
Another short question:

I set up a Wordpress site with apache and debian.
So now my site is available, just under IP-adress, but ok. Domain should be active in a few days.

When i go to the ip of the server in the browser, i get to the (first) apache default page, then, after deleting this, to just the directory , where i can choose the wordpress folder. Then i get to my wordpress site.
When i want to visit my site, i need to type “IPADRESS/wordpress”.

So this is normally not what i / we want.

Question:
How can I change the default page beeing loaded when accessing the IPv4 adress of my server.

When i point an A-record of my domain to the ip of the server, the Wordpress Site should appear, and not some shitty Apache site or so on. And however, i cannot point an A-Record to “IPADRESS/wordpress”, who knows why, i think it has just to be an lonely ip-adress.

Like you see, i’m not the very best apache-pro…

Thanks for helping.

Greetings

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If you change the apache2 configuration file at /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf to point to your wordpress folder as the root folder of your website you wont need to add /wordpress to your ip address. I would highly recommend reading Jay’s book on setting up apache, as it’s pretty thorough. But this site is more specific to wordpress. It’ll get you a really basic wordpress instance running.

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Hey there.
I changed the DocumentRoot variale to “/var/www/html/wordpress”.
But nothing happened.
Made control in all de .conf files, sites-available and also sites-enable.
Should alsoi be correct.

What is my mistake?

Greetings

Mandelbrot

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<VirtualHost *:443>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request’s Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
    SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1.3
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/sites-available/cert.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/sites-available/key.pem

    # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
    # error, crit, alert, emerg.
    # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
    # modules, e.g.
    #LogLevel info ssl:warn

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
    # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
    # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
    # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
    # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
    #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf

vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

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with http it does not function properly.

with https:

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.

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Have you enabled the ssl module for Apache? Do you have the cert and key files in the /etc/apache2/sites-available directory? Is there a firewall rule blocking port 443? Did you restart the apache2 service after enabling the ssl module and updating the .conf files?

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SSL module is enablede.
Cert and Key file is in place.
Firewall is open on 443.
Apache was restarted when i changed something.
Tried to reboot the server, didn’t work.

BUT:
I think this is shitty anyway.
In one of jays videos, he uses certbot for encryption over HTTPS / TLS and this works properly, also for me.
I think, the way I’ve tried to encrypt my website is just old or in another way shitty. The Certificate is self signed, and when i visit my website, there is a warning, thus like this would be is a security issue.

And perhaps there is someting broken generally in those configurations i did.

Maybe i’ts the best, to set up Wordpress again and encrypt it with certbot with a better certificate. So there is no warning, when i visit my website.
I’ve encrypted my nextcloud with certbot (like jay shows in his video) and it all works. so, thinks this should be better anyway.

So: Thank you very much. But it could be the best to start all over again, when I have the time.
I will use your link above, to set up wordpress in a good way.

Greetings

Mandelbrot