How to setup virtual host on apache web server in ubuntu.
To encapsulate configuration details we can use virtual host feature. We can host more than 1 website also on ubuntu server.
Apache on ubuntu has a server block enabled by default and default folder is /var/www/html
if we need to host a single website then above path is okay and we can continue our development on default folder.
But in case we need to host multiple website then we should follow virtual host feature
Step 1 : So lets create directory for our domain name
sudo mkdir /var/www/domainname
Step 2 : Lets assign the ownership of the directory with the $user environment variable
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/your_domain
The permissions of your web roots needs to be correct if you haven’t modified your umask value, which sets default file permissions. To ensure that your permissions are correct and allow the owner to read, write, and execute the files while granting only read and execute permissions to groups and others, run below command
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/your_domain
Step 3 : Create a web page on above domain
sudo nano /var/www/your_domain/index.html
enter some html into this file and save and close it
Step 4 : Now Apache need to host this page . it’s necessary to create a virtual host file with the correct directives.
Instead of modifying the default configuration file located at /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
directly, let’s make a new one at /etc/apache2/sites-available/your_domain.conf
Step 5 : enter below data into file
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName domainname
ServerAlias www.domainname
DocumentRoot /var/www/domainname
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>updated DocumentRoot to our new directory
updated ServerAdmin to an email that the domainname site administrator can access.
Added two directives: ServerName, which establishes the base domain that should match for this virtual host definition,
ServerAlias, which defines further names that should match as if they were the base name.
Save and close the file
Step 6 : Lets enable the file with a2ensite tool
sudo a2ensite your_domain.conf
Disable the default site defined in 000-default.conf:
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
Lets test for configuration errors
sudo apache2ctl configtest
Output should be “syntax ok”
restart apache to implement changes
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Apache should now working for new hosted domainname
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