I'm embarrassed to say the default page. Many moons ago I used to host a wordpress blog there but I'm exceptionally lazy and rarely ever posted. The upkeep on Wordpress just wasn't worth the hassle.
Every so often I think about starting a basic tech blog for those, "hey here's how I fixed this weird edge case", posts that have saved my butt 1000x over.
Same here. It just says "nginx has been successfully installed" or something like that. It serves the appropriate directories or redirects to the respective virtual machines for other (sub) domains.
I just have a static page that I randomly change - you can see mine here. In this case I was testing the idea of having text within an SVG for better scaling from mobile to desktop, and also I'm loving orange and purple at the moment for some reason! Oh, and I was testing automated deployments from CI/CD, so I always use my own base domain with those first tests!
A index.html file that says "There's nothing here". Not even a special http status. I have subdomains with freshrss, dokuwiki, XBackBone, and whatever I'm tinkering with, but I can't be bothered to maintain anything public. I guess I have personal websites I haven't touched since 2012?
Kinda surprised how few mentions this has. I use it for my personal website which I made using Hugo. That's what I used it for even before I was hosting any services.
Always wanted a "personal" website but felt I wasn't creative enough to create anything useful enough... Maybe a wiki was the best I could come up with
Care to share what you use the website for exactly?
I've read many times that If in doubt turn it into a blog and write down whatever you have learned that day. I have an entry that is simply a how to list all local variables in python.
It's a redirect to my www Subdomain, which currently runs a Wordpress, but I'm developing my custom website to put there. So, it runs my personal website.
I do something similar, then fail2ban immediately bans the ip for a few hours. The only people going to my root domain are people i do not want sniffing around. It also does the same if you dont pass in my domain at all (and are just hitting random ips).
One of these days, I plan to build up a neat blog with some static site generator like Nikola. Or maybe host documentation about everything I do with bookstack or wiki.js.
I've been looking at some static page options as well as some FOSS alternatives, just haven't pulled the trigger since I'm not super concerned about it.
Ultimately though my primary domain actually just points to NGINX Proxy Manager which hands off to everything else.
It's just a page that displays the visitors ip address. I've been trying to get it to work with curl like how icanhazip.com works to display the ip in command line but haven't made it that far yet.
Used to have nginx point the default location to an abyss web server, but I didn't carry the setup forward when I upgraded the OS. It's a 503 now.
Several other locations are pointing to:
my homebrewed file server. Initially to replace abtssws's piss poor directory listing performance, but now a frankensteinian being that has a comic reader of my own build, specs, and preference.
an icecast server streaming whatever my foobar2k is playing, so I can listen to my library on the go.
I had a nice layout for a while that used Iframes to access all my services. Made things easier for my family they just went to the main domain and there was a menu that would take them to ll the services no back button needed. Iframes aren't really secure from my understanding tho.
Interesting about that page was I hade ChatGPT generate the HTML for it
I use nginx to handle the routing to different systems and docker ports so it helps when I fiddle with that config to see “server online” that I shoved in a basic html page for the base domain.
I used to run Nextcloud there but I’ve had so much trouble with nextcloud that I barely use it at all now and I worried it was too easily discoverable for something I wasn’t confident was configured properly.