Howto apache virtual hosts

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Introduction

In this tutorial we want to set up multiple virtual hosts.

Prerequisites

First you have to plan your website infrastructure. It's helpful to use a directory ("/srv/www/htdocs/") including one subdirectory for each virtual host.

You have to decide which sort of virtual host you need.

It's possible to create a sub domain for each of the following options.

• IP-address
• Domain-name
• Port

Please replace {DOMAINNAME} with an IP or an domain name you want.

Procedure

Enter the directory /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/. As you can see there are two sample configuration files - one with ssl; one without ssl. We use the template without ssl. Only files ending with ".conf" are automatically included to the apache configuration.

Copy the sample configuration file "vhost.template" to "{DOMAINNAME}.conf" and create the subdirectory for this virtual host.

# cp vhost.template {DOMAINNAME}.conf
# mkdir /srv/www/htdocs/{DOMAINNAME}/

Now edit the copied configuration file. The first important line regulate the responsibility of the virtual host.

<VirtualHost *:80>

it's possible to replace the "*" with a domain name or an IP and "80" with a non standard http port.

change the "DocumentRoot srv/www/vhosts/dummy-host.example.com" line to something like this

DocumentRoot /srv/www/htdocs/{DOMAINNAME}/

Change in the following line the path to your document root path.

<Directory "/srv/www/vhosts/dummy-host.example.com">