Thread: [Apache] Setting up a simple virtual host

IMPORTANT: Take backups of all the files you edit during this tutorial, follow the steps in this tutorial at your own risk!
This tutorial will go through a very simple way of setting up virtual hosts in apache that is very easy and quick to do..

Step 1 – Edit the default virtual host
First of all you need to edit the default virtual host to tell apache to look look for the domains…
Make a backup of the default virtual host file first!
The default virtual host can be found on Ubuntu in the folder:

Code:

/etc/apache2/sites-available/

Replace the code in the default file for this:
(Replace the variables in {THESE} to reflect your server configuration)

Code:

<Directory />
 Options FollowSymLinks
 AllowOverride None
 </Directory>
 <Directory /domains/*/*/*/web/public_html>
 AllowOverride All
 Options IncludesNoExec ExecCGI
 </Directory>
 <Directory /home/*/*/*/web/public_html>
 AllowOverride All
 Options IncludesNoExec ExecCGI
 </Directory>
 <Directory /domains/*/*/*/web/public_html/_vti_bin>
 AddHandler application/x-suphp-cgi .exe
 RLimitCPU 40 40
 </Directory>
 <VirtualHost {SERVER IP}:80>
 ServerName {SERVER NAME}
 ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error_log
 CustomLog /var/log/apache2/sites_access_log ald
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1$1 [R=301,L]
 VirtualDocumentRoot /domains/%1.1/%1.2/%0/web/public_html
 # VirtualDocumentRoot only sets the effective document root for each site;
 # it doesn’t update the DOCUMENT_ROOT environment variable to reflect that
 # (and Apache developers are adamant this is the correct behaviour).  Also
 # it isn’t possible to set DOCUMENT_ROOT manually, so instead set
 # VIRTUAL_DOCUMENT_ROOT to what we want DOCUMENT_ROOT to be, then use
 # suphp-docroot to intercept calls to suPHP and move the value of
 # VIRTUAL_DOCUMENT_ROOT into DOCUMENT_ROOT:
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{LA-U:SCRIPT_FILENAME} ^/domains/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/public_html/[^/]+
 RewriteRule ^ – [E=VIRTUAL_DOCUMENT_ROOT:/domains/%1/%2/%3/public_html/]
 </VirtualHost>
 RewriteLock “/tmp/rewrite.lock”
 <VirtualHost *:81>
 ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error_log
 CustomLog /var/log/apache2/sites_access_log ald
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteLogLevel 0
 RewriteRule ^/((.)(.)[^/]*)(.*) /home/$2/$3/$1/web/public_html/$4
 </VirtualHost>

Step 2: Create the folders for the domains.
Run these commands in shell to create the directories required for the domains:

Code:

cd /
 mkdir domains
 cd /domains
 mkdir -p a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
 mkdir /domains/tmp
 cd /domains/tmp
 mkdir -p a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/a
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/b
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/c
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/d
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/e
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/f
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/g
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/h
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/i
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/j
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/k
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/l
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/m
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/n
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/o
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/p
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/q
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/r
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/s
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/t
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/u
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/v
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/w
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/x
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/y
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /domains/z
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/a
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/b
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/c
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/d
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/e
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/f
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/g
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/h
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/i
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/j
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/k
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/l
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/m
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/n
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/o
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/p
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/q
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/r
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/s
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/t
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/u
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/v
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/w
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/x
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/y
 cp -R /domains/tmp/* /home/z
 rmdir /domains/tmp/*
 rmdir /domains/tmp/

Step 3 – Restart Apache

Restart apache using this command in ubuntu:

Code:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Step 4 – Set up a domain

To set up a domain in this configuration, you need to make a directory in the home folder and a symbolic link in the domains folder to it as I will show you below:
If you wanted to use the domain example.com:

Code:

mkdir /home/e/x/example
 mkdir /home/e/x/example/web
 mkdir /home/e/x/example/web/public_html
 ln -s /home/e/x/example /domains/e/x/example.com

You can now place the website files in the public_html folder where the domain is pointed to.
If you don’t want to do this every time you want to add a domain, you could use the php script that is attached to this post and upload it to a passworded folder on the server to create more domains quickly and easily.
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What is viral host in apache please explain it and when it will create or what?

I have to admit this is unusually complex way to setup a virtual host.

Originally Posted by jcourtenay

I have to admit this is unusually complex way to setup a virtual host.

I have to agree with that. The virtual host itself is can be simplified alot more, there are numerous options which are not needed or are not correct in the above. For example, you doe not have to have the entire rewrite rules into that virtual host since you have the directive "AllowOverride All", which enables you to place these rewite rules in a spearate .htaccess file. Also, the handler "AddHandler application/x-suphp-cgi .exe" is not needed. Alot more simpler example of a virtual host would be the following:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName example . com
        ServerAlias example . com
        DocumentRoot /home/www/example . com
<Directory /home/www/example . com>
        Options FollowSymLinks -ExecCGI -Indexes
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
        AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I didn't get you friend.Can you explain it properly and perfectly ?

You can set up Plesk to web server ! it great!