What is Virtual Host and why its needed ? Answer : The term Virtual Host is practic to run multiple website on single machine. or on single IP address.
Example : Website 1 like www.example1.com is running on 192.168.10.108 again another website like www.example2.com is also runnging on 192.168.10.108. So using Virtual host we can manage in Apache2.
Let’s start the Setup Virtual hosts on Ubuntu.
Prerequisite :
- UBUNTU 14.08 on wards VPS with root access.
- An Apache2 installed server.
- domain name A record must be point to the server public IP address. ( here we use 192.168.1.108 )
Here, Start with two example websites. which we points to the 192.168.10.108 IP server.
step 1: Update your system.
sudo apt-get update
step 2: Connect your VPS using SSH. and create directory name with example1.com and example2.com
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/example1.com sudo mkdir /var/www/html/example2.com
step 3: Now we can create index.html in example1.com folder to identidfy virtual host working correct or not. Write somthing like Hello World.
sudo vim /var/www/html/example1.com/index.html
step 4 : Create virtual host file.
Apache comes with default config file. 000-default.conf for example1.com we need to create a example.conf file. we copy default 000-default.conf file and modify it using below command.
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/example1.com.conf
After copy example1.com.conf edit it.
sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/example1.com.conf
Need to replace with below code.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example1.com
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
step 5: now enable this virtual host file to apache2 using below code.
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/ sudo a2ensite example1.com.conf
step 6: now enable this changes to server. restart apache2 services.
sudo service apache2 restart
step 7:Â just go to browser and check domain is points to your server.
Note : If you want to create a local virtual host then you have to edit hosts file. Which is located to the
/etc/hosts
and add one line
127.0.0.1 example1.com
You can repeat this process to host as many sites as the server can handle.
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