how to change where public ip redirects

Question

I am new to Magento and I am trying to change the address where my public ip directs, but honestly do not quite know how to do it. So if anyone could lend a hand it would be much appreciated.

I have an ip, let´s say http://12.34.456.89/ and when I navigate to it from browser I end up in the first magento page (Concratulations You are now running Bitnami Magento 1.9.0.1-0 virtual appliance. blaa, blaa), but I would need it redirect into http://12.34.456.89/magento/ where the actual store resides.

How can I make the the redirection so, that upon entering http://12.34.456.89/ on the browser, user will end up on http://12.34.456.89/magento ?

Many thanks for helping a newbie out.

Answer 1

If you are asking for your local system, for Windown go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and edit hosts file in Notepad. You need to run the Notepad as Administrator.

In Ubuntu the path is /etc/hosts, edit this file in your editor like VIM as a root so use the command sudo vim /etc/hosts

Both OS will require to add a line in the file as

12.34.456.89 12.34.456.89/magento

Note a space between both. whatever you write before space is request and whatever is after the space is the target. save the file and try the request part. I hope it will redirect to the target.

Answer 2

if you are using ubuntu server... with

nignx - goto nginx default.conf and edit the line or a similar method for .htaccess in apache

 server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  yourname.com or ip address;



    location / {

      root   /usr/share/nginx/html; # change the root directory to magento directory
        index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    } 

or you can simply create index.php file in you current directory and use redirect method...

<?php header('location:magento/'); ?>

But it is not the recommended way