: Remove IP address from the URL of website using apache I'm on an EC2 instance and have a domain domain.com linked to the EC2 nameservers and it happily is serving my pages if I type domain.com

@BetL925

First, use <VirtualHost *:80> instead of <VirtualHost 1.1.1.10:80>. That way your virtual host applies no matter what the IP address of your server is.

Second, you need to issue a redirect if the host name isn't what you expect. I would recommend having two virtual hosts. The first is the default one for any unexpected domain names or IP addresses. It can issue a redirect to the correct domain name. The second one should be the one for your domain name. Something like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost.localdomain
Redirect permanent / domain.com/ </VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/directory

# Other directives here ...
</VirtualHost>

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@Jessie594

You'll need to set up a DNS record on the server - an A record using the IP address as the destination/target.

As an example, in your VirtualHost file, you should have something like:-

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName domain.com ServerAlias domain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/websites/domain/"
ErrorLog "/var/websites/domain/logs/error.log"
CustomLog "/var/websites/domain/logs/access.log"
</VirtualHost>


Obviously the above needs amending to the relevant paths on your server accordingly based on how you have it set up (you may need to create the necessary directories if they don't already exist).

Then you'd need to restart the server with service httpd restartfor the changes to take affect. Whether this differs on an EC2 instance I'm unsure, but this is what is needed on an Apache server.

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