# Silly Questions From A First Timer

**URL:** https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/silly-questions-from-a-first-timer/2134
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 17, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/silly-questions-from-a-first-timer/2134 "2022-06-17T16:18:48Z")
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### Author: ![BluishHumility](https://discuss.freedombox.org/user_avatar/discuss.freedombox.org/bluishhumility/32/837_2.png) [@BluishHumility](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/BluishHumility)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/silly-questions-from-a-first-timer/2134/12 "2022-07-24T23:35:09Z")

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I was reading through [this post](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/frequently-asked-questions/1906), and found this small section that implies traffic to the home page should be getting redirected to Plinth (on purpose):

> #### 4.2.3. How to have a homepage on [https://freedombox.local/](https://freedombox.local/) or the public IP
> 
> - The default page is set on your machine in /etc/apache2/conf-available/freedombox.conf (the RedirectMatch. You can can configure this file to make freedombox.local direct to a specific landing page. It will redirect any connections that don’t specify a /path.

I took a peek at `/etc/apache2/conf-available/freedombox.conf `, but the way this mechanism is implemented is a little beyond my grasp.

```auto
## Redirect traffic on home to /plinth as part of turning the machine
## into FreedomBox server. Plinth then acts as a portal to reach all
## other services.
##
RedirectMatch "^/$" "/plinth"
RedirectMatch "^/freedombox" "/plinth"

```

Probably best not to mess with it anyway–the file has a warning at the top that basically says “don’t touch!”

Can you try adding a /path to your domain, such as “[share.mydomain.com/pastebin](http://share.mydomain.com/pastebin)”?

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