Warning: DocumentRoot does not exist... But it does

Question

I'm trying to host 3 sites with Apache in Ubuntu 20.04 but when I try connecting to them I get

Not Found. The requested URL was not found on this server.

This is my virtual host file

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName nico1.com
        Redirect permanent / https://nico1.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName nico1.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/index1.html
        <Directory /var/www/index1.html>
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>

        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/private/nico1.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/nico1.key
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName nico2.com
        Redirect permanent / https://nico2.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName nico2.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/index2.html
        <Directory /var/www/>
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>

        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/private/nico2.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/nico2.key
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName nico3.com
        Redirect permanent / https://nico3.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName nico3.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/index3.html
        <Directory /var/www/>
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>

        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/private/nico3.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/nico3.key
</VirtualHost>

And when I run systemctl status apache2 I get

Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/index1.html] does not exist
Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/index2.html] does not exist
Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/index3.html] does not exist

This is clearly the error here but I don't know how to solve it. I have already tried changing permissions and making www-data the owner of the files in the past and I've also set /var/www/ in this directive in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

These are currently the permissions of the files

-rw-r--r-- 1 alumno root 499 Mar 5 19:07 index1.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 alumno root 110 Mar 6 11:55 index2.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 alumno root 110 Mar 5 19:09 index3.html

How can I fix this error?

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 18 '21 at 12:56

17

You are doing it wrong. The DocumentRoot parameter for a virtualhost must be a directory, and not a file! Create 3 subdirectories nico1, nico2, nico3, and move the correct index inside (you should probably rename it from index?.html to index.html)

See DocumentRoot.

edited Mar 18 '21 at 12:56

Andrew Schulman

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answered Mar 06 '21 at 12:13

Martin

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Warning: DocumentRoot does not exist... But it does

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