Directing url request to a subfolder on ubuntu server - redirect

Question

Here is the task
When user enters in browser domain.com/something/something,
get files not from domain.com/something/something as was expected, but from
domain.com/something/something/www
In my /etc/apache2/sites-available folder I've found domain.com.conf
And it contains only this
<virtualhost *:80>
ServerName domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/main
</virtualhost>
So how should I edit my domain.com.conf file ?

Answer 1

You are on the right path.
If you have only one domain
in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default modify the line :
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain/www/
And then restart apache :
$ sudo service apache2 restart
This will change the path for the default host.
If you have several domains
You need VirtualHosts. If you have already VirtualHosts, you probably have multiple files in /etc/apache2/sites-available/, find the one managing your domain. Otherwise create one from default by sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain.com. It should contains something like this at the begining :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain/www/
<Directory /var/www/domain/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
....many stuff
</VirtualHost>
Then enable the site and restart apache :
$ sudo a2ensite domain.com
$ sudo service apache2 restart
If you just want that a particular path /something/something/ be served from /domain.com/something/something/www/, set up an alias :
Alias /something/something /something/something/www