GoDaddy Dedicated Virtual and cPanel

[entrican]

I'm new to cPanel but not GoDaddy. I recently purchased another dedicated server and discovered they no longer offer their old control panel so i added cPanel to the order.

I have a domain that's sitting at Network Solutions (DNS is also there) and I use GoDaddy servers for a variety of applications - but mostly websites. I obtained a dedicated IP for the new server with cPanel on it and added an "A" record in my DNS at Network Solutions. I then purchased a wildcard certificate from GoDaddy and it appears to be installed correctly as I can hit https://anysub.mydomain.com and the test page shows up.

Normally I would then go to the httpd.conf file and review where the DocumentRoot is. Upon examination, it appears the default location was set to

My problem is that I can't get PHP pages to load properly when I place them in the indicated directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs for SSL. As I said, when I hit that address using the subdomain name I added my DNS at Network Solutions - it works. When I place a simple PHP file in that directory (/usr/local/apache/htdocs) it throws a 500 error. There must be something I'm doing wrong or have failed to do in order to set this up properly.

I apologize if this question is repeating other posts, if anyone knows of prior discussion or solutions, i'd be happy to look over them - just need the link.

Any help would be MUCH appreciated.

Thank you,

-Robert

 

[entrican]

I forgot to mention that when I place a simple test.html file in that same directory (/usr/local/apache/htdocs), it works like a champ. For some reason, its acting as though PHP is not enabled - but only for that directory because it works if you use the http://1.1.1.1/~user/test.php.

hope that makes sense.

-Robert

 

[cPanelTristan]

If you have an extra IP, change the certificate to install onto that dedicated IP. SSLs aren't normally supposed to load under the default Apache directory but under the /home/username/public_html directory.

Please note that we have a slew of posts about installing wildcard SSLs. There's also a script on installing them at this location:

Wildcard SSL Installation Script :: The cPanel Admin