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Virtual hosts maps folders to domain names allowing multiple sites to be configured on a single server.
Setup directory structure
Each site will require a folder and a virtual host.
To set up the folder for a domain called test.com
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/test.com/public
This will create test.com and a folder inside called public. public_html can be used instead of public.
Next set user permissions of the user to the new site
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/test.com/public
The first time the server is setup, permissions will need to be set for read access to the general web directory and all of the files and folders it contains
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www
Create the virtual host
First site should copy the 000-default.conf to the domain.extension.conf ie test.com.conf
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/test.com.conf
Then open the conf file in vi
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/test.com.conf
change ServerAdmin to the desired email address:
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
Next, add ServerName and ServerAlias this should point to the domain and the www version of the domain.
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
Update the document root to point to public or public public_html
DocumentRoot /var/www/test.com/public
The file should look like this
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@test.com
ServerName test.com
ServerAlias www.test.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/test.com/public
<Directory /var/www/test.com/public/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =test.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.test.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
To enable additional sites copy conf from an existing site ie from test.com
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/test.com.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/newsite.com.conf
To enable the conf enable them using a2ensite
sudo a2ensite test.com.conf
To disable the default conf
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf