Accessing server by dedicated IP address

Posted by Sherwin Flight on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Sherwin Flight
Published on 2013-10-24T19:38:39Z Indexed on 2013/10/24 21:57 UTC
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I'm having an issue with my hosting provider after migrating to a new account.

It's taking some time to get the problem sorted out, so I am hoping someone here can shed some light on the situation.

The server is running WHM/cPanel, and the site I am trying to access has a dedicated IP address.

When I connect to the server like this http://IP.HERE instead of showing my the website the way I would expect, it is showing the contents of a subfolder.

So, while I would expect it to load public_html/ it is loading public_html/somefolder/ instead.

Any idea why this is happening instead of showing the sites homepage the way I would expect?

EDIT

It is not redirecting, so the url is just http://IP.ADDRESS/, but the files listed are from a subfolder. So, it LOOKS at though I went to http://IP.ADDRESS/subfolder, when the URL says it should be showing the main folder contents.

When I access the site using the domain name, it works properly, so I assume the document root is set correctly.

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