Where to give index.php properly?

Question

I have /var/www/html/moodle as my website directory. When in mysite.conf the settings are as follows:

DocumentRoot /var/www/html DirectoryIndex "index.php" 

mysite.com gives an Index of/ page since there is only apache's index.html in the default location as index file. How can I make mysite.com load /var/www/html/moodle/index.php?

I tried giving in /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite.conf

DirectoryIndex "/moodle/index.php" 

With this mysite.com loads the moodle homepage, but otherindex pages inside moodle are not loading.

How to solve this?

Update (Solution)

I had to make a change in /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite.conf as

DirectoryIndex index.php /moodle/index.php 

Answer 1

The root of your site is /var/www/html and entering your URL in your browser as the root, for example http://example.com will display the root contents. http://example.com/moodle should display your index.php if it exists.

I'm an Nginx kind of guy and am not an expert on Apache but I believe this "mod_dir" is important. Make certain it has been enabled through one of the included module files. Chances are it is enabled by default.

The link for mod_dir (https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_dir.html contains some good examples.

If you want you http root to load from moodle then move the root to /var/www/html/moodle or move the moodle files to the root.

After making changes to the Apache config you should reload the Apache service, I think it's called httpd or similar.