Changing main domain from default to mine and removing /wordpress

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NethServer Version: 7
Module: 7.8.2003

I just fell in love with Nethserver, big fan and I am trying to learn this, but it is a whole new animal for me. Please understand, this is fun and I want to learn it. I have followed a lot of Wiki stuff and build a fun little server. Right now the only thing I am missing is that when I type my URL for my webpage I get the default Nethserver 7 webpage. The next problem is when I type my URL I have to do https://www.test.com/wordpress. Can someone point me in the right direction. I followed the wiki to get rid of the /wordpress and I had to rebuild the whole server. I would like to do it right this time. Any help would be apricated.

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You want the reverse proxy if you want to redirect the URL you are accessing and have your clients (those looking up https://www.test.com/wordpress) DNS pointed at your nethserver install.

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I looked at the reverse proxy, but I don’t think this will help me. When I go to my URL is says “This is a temporary page. You can easily replace it by installing your own index.html page inside /var/www/html/ directory”. Can I do this with the wordpress install?

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No, I don’t think you do. There are two distinct issues going on:

  • Configure Neth to serve Wordpress from the root of some domain–that’s done using config setprop wordpress DomainName example.com.
    • It still can’t be the same as the main domain name for the Neth server, though.
    • You’d add a DNS A or CNAME record for this name (e.g., wordpress.example.com) pointing to your IP address.
    • You’d also need to add that new domain name to your TLS certificate
  • Configure Wordpress so that it knows what its new URL is, because it’s kind of dumb that way.

A much simpler way to accomplish a similar goal (i.e., have visitors to neth.example.com, or whatever FQDN is pointing to your Neth server, be redirected to your wordpress installation) is to just put a simple index.html file in /var/www/html to redirect them automatically–it would look like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>

<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=https://your.domain.com/wordpress">

<script>
  window.location.href = "https://your.domain.com/wordpress"
</script>

<title>Page Redirection</title>

<!-- Note: don't tell people to `click` the link, just tell them that it is a link. -->
If you are not redirected automatically, follow the <a href='https://your.domain.com/wordpress'>link</a>.

Visitors will still see your.domain.com/wordpress in their address bar this way, though.

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After adding your example with my domain info, now on my main page I get

Forbidden

“You don’t have permission to access /index.html on this server"

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Strange. How are permissions on that file? Is it readable by all?

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You were right, I just copied what you had sent me to notepad and edit it. When I saved it, it did not have read permissions for everyone, I gave it read and execute permissions. Thanks for your help. I am going back to play with the site now.

Thanks again.

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Execute isn’t needed (though I don’t think it hurts), but read definitely is. I’d also strongly discourage using Notepad, because it doesn’t understand Unix line endings and will often corrupt files. Either use Notepad++, which is a fine, free text editor for Windows, or use nano on the Neth server itself.

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Thank you for the wealth of knowledge, I did as you suggested; I used the notepad +++ and I installed nano, nano is so easy to use I really like it.