[SOLVED] mywebsite.com shows index of / after installing Magento

Issue

I am running Virtual server by:

• VirtualBox v5.2.12
• Ubuntu v18.04
• Apache v2.4.29
• php 7.1.17
• Magento v2.2.4

Everything goes fine till I install magento! Magento works find without any problem in the server but the problem here is when I entered mywebsite.com it shows my files and indexing and I want to show my index.html instead:

Index of /
Name    Last modified   Size    Description
index.html  2018-05-28 03:47    180      
info.php    2018-06-04 12:39    20   
magento2/   2018-05-01 23:21    -    
Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Server at mywebsite.com Port 65533

I tried a lot of answer but without any success.

Here is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

And Here is /etc/apache2/sites-available/mywebsite.com.conf

Listen 65533
    <VirtualHost mywebsite.com:65533>

    ServerName www.mywebsite.com
    ServerName mywebsite.com

    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName mywebsite.com
    ServerAlias www.mywebsite.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/mywebsite.com/html

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

    <Directory />

        Options FollowSymLinks

        AllowOverride None

    </Directory>

    <Directory /var/www/mywebsite.com/html/>

        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews

        AllowOverride All

        Require all granted

     </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Here is /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html

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

</VirtualHost>

Solution

Finally I solved the issue .. been trying for a week!

The solution is: Step 1- Inside this file "/etc/apache2/sites-available/mywebsite.com.conf" this should be the first directory strait after the virtualhsost info:

<Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
</Directory>

And it will effect the whole file.. ok so far so good.

Step 2- I added a new directory specially for magento which is

<Directory /var/www/mywebsite.com/html/magento2>
           Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews
           AllowOverride All
           Require all granted
</Directory>

Step 3- sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart in order to restart the apache with status or just use any method to restart.

** The point here is you need to avoid directory Inheritance / one setting for all in order to work with each directory separately.

Hope someone get benefit from this post.

Thank you Andra for the little help.

Regards, QLF

Answered By - qlf