A couple of questions concerning my /var/www folder and security

Hi All,

I am currently hosting a few domains off my LAMP Ubuntu 14.04, all is working fine.

The webfolders are located in /var/www/ subfolders.

1 - But I do not actually have anything in the root /var/www folder itself. Should I have something ( a redirecting file or .htaccess file) in the /var/www folder? Should it be more properly addressed in the apache config file instead?
2 - Also another thing I noticed is that when I type in the actual IP address of the webserver into a web browser, it lands in nowhere land. I addressed this issue by editing the htaccess file in one of the domain webfolders to do a redirect. Should this be addressed in the apache config file instead?

Currently, my apache config file looks like this:

Code:

<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 All
  Require all granted
</Directory>

Regards