how can access website via ip address

[aliinjector]

Hello, How can I visit the default website of the account by entering the IP address?

http://IP/~admin

not working, its show 404 error ! admin user has default domain but returns 404 error

 

[Richard G]

You have to enable userdir for that via SSH.

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build set userdir_access yes
./build update
./build rewrite_confs

After that it should be possible.
Might not work with nGinx.

 

[BillyS]

Curious, why you would want to do this? You want to visit it by IP address?

 

[Richard G]

If you have a new customer and the domain does not resolve yet, the user can already access Directadmin this way, to put up his website stuff, or at least partly.

 

[BillyS]

That's not necessary, that

If you have a new customer and the domain does not resolve yet, the user can already access Directadmin this way, to put up his website stuff, or at least partly.

That's why I asked, if they are on Windows machine, that is not needed. Much easier to just change the hosts file.

 

[Richard G]

Much easier to just change the hosts file.

For us yes. But try to teach that to customers.

 

[MiloW]

Wanted to ask the same : )
still no domain, wonder how to access a user folder ; )

 

[Richard G]

still no domain, wonder how to access a user folder ; )

You tried solution in post #2?
And after that http://ip.ad.re.ss/~username if it worked?

Using nGinx too?

 

[MiloW]

Yes, it worked allright : )

BTW does anyone know if there is a possibility to use this da.direct domain for subdomains?
DA should give such an opportunity with a DNS service or something ; )

I remember DA needed ANY domain to work with user account, I can see the "default" folder doesn't work really as a default folder if there are no domains, right?
So you need to add ANYTHING so that /~username works?

 

[Richard G]

Yes, it worked allright : )

So why do you ask then if it works? Please do not respond to old threads if you don't have a question.

The da.direct is not your domain so if even possible you can best not create subdomains with that name.
DA should not give that opportunity, that domain name is -only- intended for quick hostname configuration during installation, it's not a kind of "dyndns" service.

You need to have a domain name (even a fake one) for /~username to work yes.

 

[MiloW]

But even without a domain, it won't work via IP?
I thought the default folder would then work but it doesn't...

 

[Richard G]

But even without a domain, it won't work via IP?

No it won't. Without a domain you don't have default folder. Because this is an Apache (website) feature so only works in the public_html folder which you need to create a domain for. As said, even a fake domain like example.com will work.

If you want to visit your home directory like /home/username then you can do so via FTP if needed. But it's in fact no use without domain name, unless you want to store some stuff on the server.