How do I access a site by IP on a CentOS server

Question

I have a CentOS 6.3 server, running Apache and have DirectAdmin installed.

I have created what will be a new domain, but I do not have a domain name yet. For now I have created, lets say, mydomain.com.

Internally, DirectAdmin have created a structure like this

/home/admin/domains/mydomain.com/public_html

inside this public_html there is an index.html page.

How do I access that page by IP, using a browser? Supposing my IP is 100.100.100.100

thanks

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score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 06 '14 at 19:11

You will need to configure IP-Based Virtual Host.

You can do that by editing your apache/httpd.conf file, add something like this:

<VirtualHost 100.100.100.100:80>
ServerAdmin rubberduck@mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /home/admin/domains/mydomain.com/public_html
ServerName site.mydomain.com
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/logs/site/error_log
TransferLog /var/log/httpd/logs/site/access_log
</VirtualHost>

Also, you can find some great information on Apache Official Site - Virtual Host Section. Just bear in mind that the DocumentRoot should be specified without a trailing slash.

But, just so you know, you can edit your hosts file like so:

100.100.100.100 host.mydomain.com

And then just browse to http://host.mydomain.com

How do I access a site by IP on a CentOS server

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