Hosting multiple websites off of one server

[TheComputerdude]

I am hosting my own website right now off of a LAMP server running ubuntu 16. I am trying to host another site off of this same server. How would I go about doing this?????

[VinZie]

Apache2 is good at doing this.

[VinZie]

I can include a article for helping you run multiple sites if you would like.-

[mariushm]

use virtualhosts

 

edit httpd-vhosts.conf and do something like this

 

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.org
    DocumentRoot c:/www/!root
    ServerName default.example.org
    ErrorLog c:/logs/apache/default-error.log
    CustomLog c:/logs/apache/default-access.log common

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    RewriteEngine On
    ServerAdmin contact@example.org
    DocumentRoot c:/www/example.org
    ServerName example.org
    ServerAlias www.example.org
    Alias /pages c:/www/example.org/wiki/index.php
    ErrorLog c:/logs/apache/example.org-error.log
    CustomLog c:/logs/apache/example.org-access.log common

    <Directory "c:/www/example.org">
	AllowOverride All
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
    Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.org
    DocumentRoot c:/www/subdomain.example.org
    ServerName subdomain.example.org
    ErrorLog d:/logs/apache/subdomain.example.org-error.log
    CustomLog d:/logs/apache/subdomain.example.org-access.log common
    
    <Directory "c:/www/subdomain.example.org">
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

 

First virtualhost is the default one - think of it like a catch all / default error page - it's telling the web server what should serve if user enters the IP address in a browser, like http://1.2.3.4 or answers requests from ancient browsers which aren't able to tell the server what domain they want content from.

 

The second virtualhost is for a default example.org (with or without www. in front, you can make separate vhosts for them if you want to) and has some additional rules that are common for mediawiki installations ( converts www.example.org/wiki/index.php?title=Something to www.example.org/pages/Something )

 

The third Virtualhost is for a subdomain of example.org domain

 

Of course, you'll have to edit the paths to be Linux specific like /var/vhost1 , /var/vhost2 or whatever.

 

later edit: 

 

And of course, in order for this conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file to be parsed by apache when it starts, you must load it from the main httpd.conf file so make sure the lines don't have a # in front  (# comments out a line)

 

somewhere near the top of the httpd.conf file

 

LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so

 

further down :

 

# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Edited May 6, 2017 by mariushm

[TheComputerdude]

@mariushm Just to double check will this work for 2 completely separate domains? Ex. example.com and coolExample.com.

[Jade]

1 minute ago, TheComputerdude said:

@mariushm Just to double check will this work for 2 completely separate domains? Ex. example.com and coolExample.com.

I'm not mariushm, but assuming you follow the example they provided, yes.

[TheComputerdude]

@Jade Thanks