Brand new WordPress install with Avade Theme installed on RPi 4 – works fine when I access it on http://203.0.113.111/index.php
from an external connection, but if I remove the index.php
I get nothing – connection refused.
Is this normal behaviour? Shouldn’t I get redirected to the WP installs index page right away? I’ve forwarded port 80 in my router to the Pi’s internal IP, so I can’t get my head around this.
I even modified the .htaccess
in /var/www/html
with these lines:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
but ALAS – even though I think it should work just fine I don’t get why I have to write the index.php
in my web-browser. Of course a direct DNS forward could do the trick here, but common? That’s just symptom-treatment, right?
Can anyone give me a pointer in the right direction?
EDIT: It’s the same when I try to access my web servers internal IP from the LAN – I have to input index.php
if I must reach the WP-site.
EDIT 2: from @kero’s comment: I rewrote AllowOverride
in Apache conf from None
to ALL
and restarted Apache but still nothing.
… still changes nothing after an Apache service restart.
2 Answers
Is this normal behaviour?
Yes. On a default Apache install, only index.html
is set as the DirectoryIndex (the default setting).
Either in the appropriate <VirtualHost>
container, or main server config you need to add a <Directory>
section that specifically targets the defined document root directory.
For example:
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
<Directory "/var/www/html">
# Allow public access to the site
Require all granted
# FollowSymLinks is required for mod_rewrite
# (Although this is actually the default server setting)
Options FollowSymLinks
# Allow mod_dir to serve index.php by default
DirectoryIndex index.php
# Give full access to htaccess (optional)
# Strictly speaking you only need "FileInfo" for mod_rewrite
# - Alternatively place all your htaccess directives here...
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
You will then need to restart Apache.
mod_dir also needs to be enabled, but this should be loaded by default.