Apache VirtualHosts on AWS EC2 not working

Question

I'm trying to set up a VirtualHost on my AWS EC2 Linux server. However, it continues to direct the request to the default page.

I've installed apache and when I create an index file in /var/www/html/ it displays as expected.

However, when I add a *.conf virtual host it just reverts the default page.

I've created my /etc/httpd/conf.d/{myvhost.conf} file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/home/username/www/public"
    ServerName ec2-13-55-0-7.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com

</VirtualHost>

The document root has been created at /home/username/www/public and I've added a custom index.html file, perms set to 755.

IncludeOptional conf.d/*.conf is uncommented in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Restarted apache.

But default page is displayed and not my /home/username/www/public.
Why?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

First it would be nice if you added some Directory directives to your root folder:

<Directory "/home/username/www/public/">
  allow from all
  Options +Indexes
</Directory>

<LocationMatch "^/+$">
    Options Indexes
</LocationMatch>

# Check for syntax error
apachectl -t
# List VirtualHost
apachectl -S

# both checks:
apachectl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS

Of course, check the log files.

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