Hostname and Main Domain

cmo

• January 06, 2014 15:10

Hi again, I may not have thought my setup through very well. When I setup my server I chose a hostname based on a domain I plan to use as my primary website: server.domain.com I then created an account for myself with the domain domain.com. When I browse to server.domain.com it shows the website I have setup at domain.com. I assumed (and hoped) that browsing to server.domain.com would show cPanel's default web page. The same thing happens when I visit my VPS IP (I only have 1 IP and cannot get any more for this VPS ... DigitalOcean). I haven't installed any certificates yet, but I am concerned that if it is showing the contents of my main website that it may pull the wrong certificate when a client goes to

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  cPanelMichael

  • January 06, 2014 20:22

  Hello :) You can ensure the hostname's VirtualHost is the first in your Apache configuration file (httpd.conf). You can typically rebuild the httpd.conf file to complete this task automatically: /scripts/rebuildhttpdconf
  Thank you.

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  cmo

  • January 06, 2014 21:34

  Thanks for your help again, Michael. That did it :) How often will I need to do that to ensure server.domain.com shows the default page instead of my main website?

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  cPanelMichael

  • January 07, 2014 14:01

  It should remain the first VirtualHost and display the default cPanel page without additional action. Thank you.

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