I've installed Joomla (running on Ubuntu 14.04) according to the default installation guidelines. My problem is that now when I navigate to my domain (insertdomainhere.com) what shows up isn't my Joomla home, but the apache default page. At the moment I have to navigate to insertdomainhere.com/joomla to view my Joomla page. What I'd like to do is set it so that when I navigate to insertdomainhere.com my Joomla page appears (as opposed to .com/joomla). Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Ryan
what shows up isn't my Joomla home, but the apache default page.
This is because you've uploaded Joomla! in /joomla and not in the default directory (/var/www/html). This would result in Apache showing the default page.
What I'd like to do is set it so that when I navigate to insertdomainhere.com my Joomla page appears (as opposed to .com/joomla).
You should move your Joomla! installation to the root directory of your web server or put this in an .htaccess file in the root directory:
Redirect 301 / /joomla
You can use the following to redirect your root folder to /joomla/:
RedirectMatch ^/$ /joomla/