I'm pretty new in webserver management. So I rented this server, and setup a LAMP server with MySql and everything is alright in that sense.
The problem is now that I have two different domains (say www.domain1.com, www.domain2.org), and I want each of them to load the website content from a different folder on my server.
How can I do that?
I tried to google some relevant terms, but I couldn't find what that's called.
Thank you for any efforts.
If you use Apache2, you can use the ServerName directive in the VirtualHost configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain1.com
DocumentRoot /folder1
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain2.com
DocumentRoot /folder2
</VirtualHost>
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I currently have example.com pointing to Server one. I wanted to server example.com from a different directory ( /WebData )
I did this by editing httpd.conf
http://pastebin.com/UjHhRNTX
I this works as desired.
I then found out I needed to add website.org to the server. So I mounted another disk and created a dir called /WebDataWebsite
and created /etc/httpd/conf.d/websiteorg.conf with the following VHost:
http://pastebin.com/GTmqtABf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/WebDataWebsite"
ServerName website.org
ServerAlias www.website.org
<Directory "/WebDataWebsite">
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
For some reason all traffic to example.com and website.org were both directed to index.htm in /WebDataWebsite
What I am doing wrong? How to I make /WebData (in httpd.conf) the default website but filter by servername website.org with the VHost?
You'll probably need to use Alias's for the second site. Have a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#alias
It's unlikely that second declaration of the VH is being picked up by apache as it can not deal with two declarations of the same I believe.
I have 3 websites running on a cloud server, with the default Apache httpd.conf setting . I have uncommented the NameVirtualHost and configured the 3 websites from VirtualHost, after set up the DocumentRoot and ServerName for each, all worked perfectly but only the site within the default Directory is working for mod-rewrite, which I used for SEO URLs. The other 2 sites are located just one level above the /var/www/html, and are in the subfolder of /var/www/websites/site1, site2. I've tried to use RewriteBase in the .htaccess file to make this work but no success, and I have no idea where in the httpd.conf file I can make any changes to get things right. Please help, thanks.
If I understand you correctly you wish to have 3 separate websites running on 1 Apache server and then be able to have rewrites working on all of them.
You are on the right track using VirtualHosts. You need to stick to using a separate VirtualHost for each website you intend to host.
Given a folder structure as follows
/var/www/
- /websites
-- /site1
-- /site2
-- /site3
You can then setup 3 VirtualHosts for each of your 3 sites:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain1.tld
DocumentRoot /var/www/websites/site1
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain2.tld
DocumentRoot /var/www/websites/site2
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain2.tld
DocumentRoot /var/www/websites/site3
</VirtualHost>
Hope this helps.
I have a VPS that's barely being used. I would love to point several domains I have (through a registrar somewhere else) to different folders of this VPS. Is there any way to do this?
For example:
helloomgwtf.com -> 111.111.111.111/hello
hitherehowareyou.com -> 111.111.111.111/hithere
thirdrandomdomain.com -> 111.111.111.111/random
I'm entirely new to setting stuff up, so detailed explanations would really be appreciated.
Thanks!
You are looking for Virtual Hosts.
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName helloomgwtf.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/hello
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName hitherehowareyou.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/hithere
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName thirdrandomdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/random
</VirtualHost>
Rackspace has pretty good info on this here.
I have a Linode server running Ubuntu 11 and Apache2 and I'm trying to get a subdomain working. This is my mywebsite file in sites-available folder. I've tried putting the top part in its own file testing.mywebsite and reloading apache2 with no luck.
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /home/user2/www
ServerName testing.mywebsite.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin email#gmail.com
ServerName mywebsite.com
ServerAlias *.mywebsite.com
ServerAlias 192.155.90.135
#Index file and Document Root (where the public files are located)
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
DocumentRoot /home/user/public/mywebsite/www
#Log file locations
LogLevel warn
ErrorLog /home/user/public/mywebsite/log/error.log
CustomLog /home/user/public/mywebsite/log/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
I have a website up and running and apache can find all the files in /home/user/public/mywebsite/www but when I go to the testing subdomain, my browser can't find it. I'm pretty unfamiliar with apache2, so any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Are your DNS records configured to point your computer at the desired hostname to your server's IP address when it resolves? Or, are you overriding with editing /etc/hosts?
I am somewhat unsure what "my browser can't find it" means, so please clarify if the above questions don't get you closer to your problem. It would be worth checking your log files for Apache in your specified paths and /var/log/apache2/.
I'm trying to set up a virtual host on a new VPS using apache 2.x on a Ubuntu server.
When starting apache I get the error " xxx.241.214.xxx:80 has no VirtualHosts", and the url for the site still points to the default location which means my virtual host file isn't taking effect:
<VirtualHost xxx.241.214.xxx:80>
ServerName xxx.co.uk
ServerAlias www.xxx.co.uk
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/xxx.co.uk/httpdocs/xxx.co.uk
</VirtualHost>
Please help, I'm no good at all this server config stuff.
I know its been a while since you posted your question but I thought id throw in my thoughts
We currently run a few internal sites here for different purposes, all of them listen of standard port 80 and apache is set up simply as follows
Listen 80
NameVirtualHost *:80
# Site 1 Comment
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName site1.intranet
ServerAdmin administrator#whatever.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site1
</VirtualHost>
# Site 2 Comment
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName site2.intranet
ServerAdmin administrator#whatever.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site2
</VirtualHost>
Our DNS is set up to route http://site1.intranet etc to the IP of the apache server and the apache config does the rest.
I always use
<VirtualHost *>
(and ISTR always having problems specifying the IP and port number, which I think is why I do it that way now).