# Only Seeing "Index of /" after install
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [29 december 2018 om 11:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251 "2018-12-29T11:43:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@FAXES](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FAXES)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 11:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/1 "2018-12-29T11:43:57Z")
Hey!
**Basic System Info**
Running apache
Ubuntu
**Issue**
So I have installed Discourse and all but all I see when going to the domain link is:
Is there a step I missed.
_Please note_ Thats its not a Digital Ocean System, but is Ubuntu VPS.
Regards,
FAXES
**_Edit:_** Sorry if this has been asked heaps 🙂
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### Author:  [@sau226](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sau226)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/2 "2018-12-29T13:04:08Z")
Are you sure you followed the [Official Installation Guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md)? It says Digital Ocean but any Ubuntu VPS will do.
Also are you using Discourse from Bitnami? The Discourse community can only support the official installation that I linked above ( **NOT** the Bitnami version).
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### Author:  [@FAXES](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FAXES)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/3 "2018-12-29T13:07:50Z")
yeah followed that all the way through. Even restarted apache and my VPS. Also did `apt-get update`
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### Author:  [@sau226](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sau226)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/4 "2018-12-29T13:09:34Z")
You must have another apache server in your environment that is interfering if you followed the [Official Install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) Guide. The official guide installs a built in nginx server that is ready to use assuming you followed the guide correctly. Is there a custom setup in your environment?
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### Author:  [@FAXES](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FAXES)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/5 "2018-12-29T13:11:19Z")
would apache interfere with it? As I do have apache set up for my other sites.
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### Author:  [@sau226](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sau226)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/6 "2018-12-29T13:13:33Z")
If you have Apache and know how just disable it (for this site only). The [Official Install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) uses a Docker image with nginx (a web server) preloaded and ready to use. All you have to do is visit the site after disabling apache and it should work
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### Author:  [@FAXES](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FAXES)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/7 "2018-12-29T13:14:54Z")
Oh Ok. So just taking out
```plaintext
ServerName discourse.faxes.zone
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/faxes/discourse
#Redirect permanent / https://faxes.zone/
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
```
^ should work?
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### Author:  [@sau226](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sau226)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/8 "2018-12-29T13:17:04Z")
Maybe restart apache after taking that out (sudo service apache2 restart if you are on ubuntu)
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### Author:  [@FAXES](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FAXES)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/9 "2018-12-29T13:19:29Z")
🤔
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### Author:  [@FAXES](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FAXES)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/10 "2018-12-29T13:20:12Z")
Just saying that now. Does it need a special DNS record. At the moment its just pointed to the VPS’ IP.
Edit: The DNS Record are okay, according to the docs
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### Author:  [@sau226](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sau226)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/11 "2018-12-29T13:24:31Z")
If the VPS has an A record pointed properly (per Install Guide) it should work. If you can and it **really** doesn’t work delete/reset to new the VPS and follow only the steps in the install guide.
Also make sure that ufw and similar programs are either disabled or allow ssh, http and https (if you want https) through from your IP
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### Author:  [@FAXES](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FAXES)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/12 "2018-12-29T13:44:21Z")
Yeah, just bought a droplet 😃 Turns out you can just get discourse like that through it.
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### Author:  [@sau226](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sau226)
#### Post date: [29 december 2018 om 13:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/13 "2018-12-29T13:52:36Z")
Its not recommended to use any 1 click installers (even Digital Ocean ones). Just by searching on this site you can see examples of weird errors and behaviour that doesn’t exist in the Guide’s version. Its ultimately up to you but you often need to pay more (Discourse will work on a 1GB droplet if you follow the [Official Install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) Guide) to make a 1 click installer work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [28 januari 2019 om 13:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-seeing-index-of-after-install/105251/14 "2019-01-28T13:55:35Z")
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