Thought I should post about setting up virtual hosts in Apache, since this was one of the first things I had to do. I got all this info from this site, which was incredibly useful. For all the following instructions, when you see these instructions:
enter some/text/here
You need to enter this text exactly as you see it in your terminal, which can be found at Applications>Accessories>Terminal
First, you need to set up your folders where the sites are gonna be stored:
mkdir /home/www/www.example.com mkdir /home/www/www.example.net
Then you need to tell Apache that you are gonna use virtual hosts. Create a file using:
sudo touch /etc/apache2/conf.d/virtual.conf
You need to add the following content, use:
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/conf.d/virtual.conf
and enter the following:
# # We're running multiple virtual hosts. #
NameVirtualHost *
Now, you have to create an entry in both the sites-enabled and sites-available directories in /etc/apache2. So, first create the following file:
sudo touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/www.example.com
and enter the following by using:
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/www.example.com
and enter:
#
# Example.com (/etc/apache2/sites-available/www.example.com)
#
<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
# Indexes + Directory Root.
DirectoryIndex index.html
DocumentRoot /home/www/www.example.com/htdocs/
# CGI Directory
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/www/www.example.com/cgi-bin/
<Location /cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
# Logfiles
ErrorLog /home/www/www.example.com/logs/error.log
CustomLog /home/www/www.example.com/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Next, do the same for your second site, so create a file using:
sudo touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/www.example.net
and enter the following by using:
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/www.example.net
and enter:
#
# Example.net (/etc/apache2/sites-available/www.example.net)
#
<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.net
ServerName www.example.net
ServerAlias example.net
# Indexes + Directory Root.
DirectoryIndex index.html
DocumentRoot /home/www/www.example.net/htdocs/
# CGI Directory
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/www/www.example.net/cgi-bin/
<Location /cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
# Logfiles
ErrorLog /home/www/www.example.net/logs/error.log
CustomLog /home/www/www.example.net/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Finally, you need to create a copy of these files in the sites-enabled directory, using what is called a symbolic link. You can use a funky little program called a2ensite to do this. So, enter the following:
sudo a2ensite www.example.com sudo a2ensite www.example.net
And finally (I was lying last time), you need to restart Apache for this to all take effect:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
And tada, it should all be working, yay!
