After creating a new Virtual Server, the website doesn't show contents of public_html, rather it shows var/www/html which I don't want

[saintdevera]

I don’t recall ever installing anything via apt. Maybe composer, but that’s pretty much it (if even).

I should probably also mention that I’m using Cloudflared as a tunnel to my computer that’s running Virtualmin. But that shouldn’t matter since I AM getting a response, though it is the default Ubuntu apache2 page, and not whatever’s in public_html.

I deleted my Virtual Server and created a new one, this time with mydomain.com (instead of website.mydomain.com), and the problem still persists… It’s still showing the Ubuntu default page.

[Joe]

@saintdevera

I should probably also mention that I’m using Cloudflared as a tunnel to my computer that’s running Virtualmin. But that shouldn’t matter since I AM getting a response, though it is the default Ubuntu apache2 page, and not whatever’s in public_html.

You should really lead with that. If you’re proxying or using any Cloudflare services, you really need to mention it. It makes a difference in how things need to be configured.

I assume “tunneling” means you have an agent (some kind of VPN) hooking localhost to a public Cloudflare IP? That means your VirtualHosts need to be on that local IP or use *.

So, read that troubleshooting entry I sent above, with the new awareness that the IP that is configured in Virtualmin is probably wrong for Cloudflare tunneled connections. You need to set it to localhost or * (if using *, you need to make sure you don’t have any non-* VirtualHost configured options, and you need to make sure you haven’t explicitly configured Apache to only listen on a specific IP that is something other than localhost).

[saintdevera]

It worked!

I went to System Settings → Virtualmin Configuration → Networking Settings → Default virtual server IPv4 address from “From network interface” to “*” and it worked!