Virtual servers with Apache

[djanie78]

I need help fellas.
Virtual servers, apache2, webmin.

Right I got two sites in two different directories on my server. The idea is to map them to two different hostnames. Both on http port 80.

xxx.com will go to /www/xxx/index.htm
yyy.com will go to /www/yyy/index.htm

using webmin, i create a virtual server or shall i say two virtual servers and map them. Is it that straight forward?

Someone help please?

[R.Bucky]

Do you mean Virtual hosting? You will need a static ip. Follow this post http://buckycomputing.net/blog/hosti...with-1-server/

[neoanderthal]

If your DNS entries for xxx.com and yyy.com are configured correctly, I believe it will work in the fashion you want. I don't know about using webmin, but Apache's documents on virtual hosts can be found here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/examples.html

[tlsarles]

What you want isn't too hard. As I think others have eluded too, your DNS provider should be mapped so that this.com and that.com both point to the IP of the server that will be hosting the two domains. Then you just gotta do the Apache config.

Ok, so your main apache2.conf you don't usually need to touch. instead, go into /etc/apache2/sites-available/

in that folder, you will need to create a config file for each vHost. so create /etc/apache2/sites-available/this

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName this.com
   DocumentRoot /var/www/this/
</VirtualHost>

And make a config file for that.com, with the same syntax.

now you just need to enable the site so do a

a2ensite this

and restart apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

The End

[djanie78]

What you want isn't too hard. As I think others have eluded too, your DNS provider should be mapped so that this.com and that.com both point to the IP of the server that will be hosting the two domains. Then you just gotta do the Apache config.

Ok, so your main apache2.conf you don't usually need to touch. instead, go into /etc/apache2/sites-available/

in that folder, you will need to create a config file for each vHost. so create /etc/apache2/sites-available/this

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName this.com
   DocumentRoot /var/www/this/
</VirtualHost>

And make a config file for that.com, with the same syntax.

now you just need to enable the site so do a

a2ensite this

and restart apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

The End

Thank you all for your help. Sorted with the instructions quoted above. You my friend are a star.
Now how do i disable a site i.e the opposite of a2ensite this

[neoanderthal]

my enabled sites are symbolic links to the configuration files in /etc/apache2/sites-available - i just remove the symlink in sites-enabled that points to the configuration file for the site I wish to disable, and restart apache.

the companion to a2ensite is a2dissite, which is a script that does this automatically.

man a2ensite for more information

[jocampo]

neo,

I faced a similar issue months ago. I was able to install two sites with 1 IP. Take a look on this thread that I created.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1249354

[djanie78]

OK that was me bieng a ****. Forgot all about the man command. All works good though guys. Thanks you all very much

[tlsarles]

a2dissite or something like that......

[Sporkman]

now you just need to enable the site so do a

a2ensite this

I usually just make a link in sites-enabled (with an appropriately-numbers xxx- prefix).