{"id":340,"date":"2009-10-05T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2009-10-05T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T19:40:19","slug":"setting-up-virtual-hosts-in-apache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2009\/10\/setting-up-virtual-hosts-in-apache\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up Virtual Hosts In Apache"},"content":{"rendered":"

Setting Up Virtual Hosts In Apache, and also Editing The Host File On Windows.<\/p>\n

For this test, I have an Ubuntu 9.04 Server (LAMP) running Apache2. I also have the testing machine of a Windows 7 Enterprise workstation using Firefox browser, notepad\/notepad2 for editing, and putty for ssh connections.<\/p>\n

Setting up a virtual host in Apache used to be a long and arduous task – now they’ve made it almost foolproof. Before I start on the how-to, let’s look into why-we-should:
\nThere are a limited number of IPv4 IP addresses
\nWebsites generally do not use up all of the resources of a high-powered server
\nIt costs quite a bit more money to run a single website on a single server (if you’re hosting yourself there’s the power, internet, maintenance, and other problems to add up)<\/p>\n

Obviously there is more than one way to go about this, but this is how I did it on my setup:<\/p>\n

Log into your Linux server using putty or another SSH application
\n\"1_login\"
\nI’m using the root user – if you log as another user you may have to run “sudo command_here” commands. So if one of your commands does not work, try with the prefix sudo.
\ncd \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available<\/code>
\nnano default<\/code>
\n\"2_apache_sites_avail\"<\/p>\n

Page down to the end of this file. Everything that is in there should have been installed by default – and we only want to add to the sites and not edit.
\nAdd the following:<\/p>\n

NameVirtualHost name_of_your_host\r\n\r\n<VirtualHost IP_of_your_webserver>\r\n    DocumentRoot \/path\/to\/your\/files\r\n    ServerName domain.tld\r\n    ServerAlias *.domain.tld\r\n<\/VirtualHost><\/pre>\n
\"3_apache_sa_edited\"<\/p>\n
Control X and select save your file.  After you save, you’ll have to reset\/reload apache so it can re-read the configuration files:
\napache2ctl restart<\/code><\/p>\n
Now to test on your Windows machine we need to edit your hosts file and add the hostname and IP address of your test server.<\/p>\n
Start > run (or Windows Key + R)
\nc:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\etc
\n\"4_host_file_location\"
\nEdit the hosts file using your favorite text editor (notepad or notepad2 for me)
\nAt the bottom of the file you will need to make the changes:
\nIP_address DNS_Name<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Notice that you can have as many DNS names for each IP address as you want.
\n\"5_host_file_edited\"<\/p>\n
Now, open up your favorite browser (chrome or firefox) and navigate to the name you setup.  In my case, I go to http:\/\/test.com.  Since it loaded my test site which was different from my generic http:\/\/10.4.0.68 site, I know it’s working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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