Apache2 not wanting to point to newly edited file location

Hi there everyone!

My default apache2 points to /var/www/html and I'd like to point it towards /home/schwim/www/public_html

So I backed up /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf and edited to reflect the change:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName domain.com
    ServerAlias www.domain.com
    DocumentRoot /home/schwim/www/public_html
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Saved the file and restarted apache2 But now all the page requests are refused except for phpMyAdmin.

If I visit my phpMyAdmin install, via domain.com/phpmyadmin, this resolves correctly. That seems to have been setup during the lamp stack install and I can't seem to figure out why that works but my root directory won't.

Here's my old .conf:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

Can someone tell me what I need to do to get apache to point the default connection to /home/schwim/www/public_html?

Thanks for your time!

 

Did you give permission e.g. chmod 755 on that targeted directory?

 

and dont forget to chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/new/directory