23
Dec 2020
hOW TO CONFIGURE APACHE VIRTUAL HOSTS
Apache HTTP Server is a free and open-source web server that delivers web content through the internet. It is commonly referred to as Apache and after development, it quickly became the most popular HTTP client on the web.
LET’S GET STARTED…………………………….
Step 1:- Install Apache web server
on CentOS/RHEL:
Sudo yum install httpd
on Ubuntu/ Debian:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
Step 2:- create Directory Structures and add Demo page for virtual hosts
Apache server is using /var/www as a document root of static content
Lets create a folder name inside this www directory
cd /var/www
sudo mkdir bangmetric.com
sudo vi index.html
Add the below content in index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a Sample Page for Bangmetric Pvt. Ltd</h1>
<p>This is sample paragraph for Bangmetric Pvt. Ltd</p>
</body>
</html>
save and exit
Step 3:- Create Virtual hosts file
Virtual host files are what specify the configuration of our separate sites and dictate how the Apache web server will respond to various domain requests
Create two directories sites-available and sites-enabled. sites-available directory will keep all of our virtual host files, while the sites-enabled directory will hold symbolic links to virtual hosts that we want to publish
sudo mkdir /etc/httpd/sites-available
sudo mkdir /etc/httpd/sites-enabled
Now we should tell apache that virtual host file is present in site-available directory by doing this
sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Add below line at the end file
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
save and exit
Now create virtual Hosts File
sudo vi /etc/httpd/sites-available/bangmetric.com.conf
add the below content
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.bangmetric.com
ServerAlias bangmetric.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/bangmetric.com/
ErrorLog /var/www/bangmetric.com/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/bangmetric.com/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>save and exit
Step 4:- Enable New virtual server files
we can create a symbolic link for each virtual host in the sites-enabled directory.
sudo ln -s /etc/httpd/sites-available/bangmetric.com.conf /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/bangmetric.com.conf
Restart the apache server
Sudo systemctl restart httpd
Step 5:- Test Your Result
http://<yourdomain>
Its look like this
