: Set IP address to point to certain domain I have a Linux VPS, DirectAdmin as web panel and already set a domain to it. everything is OK and I can see my website in my browser using domain

@Kevin317

A domain always points only to an IP address, nothing more, so there is nothing you can configure.

What you want to do, is to configure your web server. As you have already noticed, it is set up to serve multiple domains from one IP. In Apache this configuration is called NameVirtualHost, other web servers will handle it similarly. What happens is, that the webserver listens at a given IP, and when a request comes in, it compares the requested domain with the defined virtual hosts.

Your workaround can be to define a virtual host based on the IP-address and serve content from it. But it may be a bad idea and is also the reason, why you are seeing the quoted message. The whole name based virtual hosts only work with the HTTP protocol 1.1, older clients with HTTP 1.0 are not supported. It is therefore common practice not to serve content from a pure IP request, when the IP is also being used for name based virtual hosts. Otherwise an old client, requesting one of the domains might be served content that was meant to be delivered when requesting the IP.

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