[note] Disable direct ip access in Apache2 ubuntu 20.04

 

Edit or create a default vhost and put this inside:

<VirtualHost *:80> 

     ServerName xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 

     403 / DocumentRoot /var/www/html 

</VirtualHost>


xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your server ip address

After that restart your apache

sudo a2ensite your-vhost.conf 

sudo systemctl restart apache2

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