Enable multiple webroot for apache2 on Ubuntu - apache

Question

I'm using apache2 on my ubuntu 13.10 machine, I have added another config file named paul under /etc/apache2/sites-available directory to make my file under /home/paul/public_html/ accessible on internet:
root#localhost:/etc/apache2/sites-available# ls -ltr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 950 Feb 7 2012 default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 978 Jun 23 10:54 paul
After than changes, my files under /var/www is not accessible on URL anymore, unless I change DocumentRoot from /home/paul/public_html to /var/www , but that would disable accessibility for /home/paul/public_html/
/etc/apache2/sites-available/paul :
DocumentRoot /home/paul/public_html
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
Is there any way of configuration to enable /var/www and /home/paul/pubilc_html as webroot at the same time? Is it required any setting on /etc/apache2/apache2.conf ? Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

You can accomplish this easily with an alias directive. In /etc/apache2/sites-available/default just add an Alias for the URL.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/
Alias /paul /home/paul/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Now the contents of /home/paul/public_html should be available at www.example.com/paul