I want to set up a domain called img.mydomain.com. It will be a virtual domain that just like my actual domain except for one difference: it will only serve files that end in .jpg .jpeg .gif .png etc. This way I can refer to img.mydomain.com/some_image.jpg. it will speed up the page speed by making the browser think that it's two separate domains (google page speed analyzer is always nagging me to do this).
I'm running apache on a linux server. Should I do this in httpd.conf? If so, what is my first step?
create 2 folder for each domains (for example):
/var/www/domain.com
/var/www/img.domain.com/
here's what you can put in your httpd.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/domain.com"
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias domain.com www.domain.com
<Directory "/var/www/domain.com">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/img.domain.com/"
ServerName img.domain.com
ServerAlias img.domain.com
<Directory "/var/www/img.domain.com/">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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I have one domain: example.com, and I need to have 2 different sites with this domain like I explain below.
Site 1: example.com
Site 2: example.com/site2
I tried to do a virtual host for each site, I show below:
Site 1 virtual host:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site1/
<Directory /var/www/html/site1>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Site 2:
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName example.com/site2
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site2/
<Directory /var/www/html/site2>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
However it's not working, when I type example.com it redirects me to example.com/site2 but it's showing page not found, like trying to search the page /site2 under example.com, I need it to be 2 separated websites.
Hope someone can help me.
I'm using wordpress and magento for the sites. example.com has Magento 2 and example.com/site2 has wordpress
Thanks!
A domain name cannot have slashes, information that starts with a slash begins the path section of the URL, which navigates down the website tree.
If you have two sites under the same domain name, the proper way to handle this is through subdomains. In your example that would be:
example.com
site2.example.com
You would need to update your DNS record for the domain, in this example, in the example.com's domain record, there would need to be a new A record for site2.
Then on Apache, what you are doing is fine, you would just need to change site2's ServerName:
ServerName site2.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site2/
These two sites do not need to be in the same file structure (they don't even need to be on the same server).
I'm running an Apache server on a CentOS 7 machine.
A month ago I created a new Drupal site (let's call it site1) under /var/www/html/site1.
Visiting http://<server-ip>/site1 yielded site1 correctly.
Today, in order to provide a test environment for a new customer, I had to create a virtual host for a new Drupal site (let's call it site2).
So I created the following vhost rule:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin test#email.com
ServerName site2.dev
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site2
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
After that I created the site's folder /var/www/html/site2 and installed Drupal. Visiting http://site2.dev yields site2 correctly.
The problem is, if I now visit http://<server-ip>/site1, site2 is shown.
I can't figure out what might be the problem. The two sites are on completely different paths and different databases, so one shouldn't affect the other in my opinion.
Since I literally defined my first vhost today, I was wondering if someone might help me explain the issue. Thanks in advance!
Ok I missunderstood your problem and thought you had 2 domains.
Was your site1 accessed by the IP with no sub directory? In this case :
Change the DocumentRoot to point to /var/www/html then both sites will be accessed by IP/site1 and IP/site2.
If you were allready accessing site1 by the url IP/site1 then you had nothing to change and could access IP/site2 without your new virtualhost wich point only to site2 directory... .
Based on Laurent's answer, this is the configuration I ended up using:
# So all IP only paths continue to work
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
ServerName 10.10.10.10 # Server's IP
<Directory /var/www/html/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
# So site2.dev points to its folder
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site2
ServerName site2.dev
<Directory /var/www/html/site2>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
To be perfectly honest, I'm not even sure if this is doable...
I've configured my vhosts file in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled which you can see here:
<VirtualHost 159.203.171.140:8080>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName 159.203.171.140:8080
DocumentRoot "/home/wiki/public_html"
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
<Directory "/home/wiki/public_html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/wiki_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/wiki_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
for a digitalocean droplet given at the IP listed in the above hosts file. This droplet has absolutely nothing on it except for the wiki user in /home/ plus the required php, mysql/mariadb, apache stuff.
What I want to be able to do is to go to 159.203.171.140:8080 and see my site without having to purchase a useless domain name.
I'd really appreciate some help with this one.
If you have only one website on the droplet, then you don't need to set up a virtual host. You can use the 000-default.conf, no need for a2ensite.
You do not need the ServerName, which won't work with the IP as a name, you also don't need the IP address in the VirtualHost directive.
So, instead of this:
<VirtualHost 159.203.171.140:8080>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName 159.203.171.140:8080
DocumentRoot "/home/wiki/public_html"
...
You can use this in your 000-default.conf file
<VirtualHost *:8080>
DocumentRoot "/home/wiki/public_html"
...
The rest of the directive stays as you have it.
Also, one note, if you are using port 8080, then you need go to /etc/apache2/ports.conf and set the Listen to 8080 (restart Apache after doing this).
I have a personal VPS hosted in * and an ubuntu installation. The ubuntu runs apache,php,mysql and is currently being used for 5 websites mapped by virtualhosts. I am writing the whole procedure in case someone needs it.
When I want to add a new domain, I create an 127.0.0.1 test.com *.test.com row in /etc/hosts, add a new file in /etc/apache2/sites-available and run a2ensite test.com - then restart apache. Each website has its own folder in /var/www and the virtualhost entry looks like this :
<Virtualhost *:80>
# Admin email, Server Name (domain name) and any aliases
ServerAdmin info#test.com
ServerName www.test.com
ServerAlias test.com *.test.com
# Index file and Document Root (where the public files are located)
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
DocumentRoot "/var/www/test.com"
<Directory /var/www/test.com>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</Virtualhost>
I am planning to add some aliases like aaa.test.com, bbb.test.com, ccc.test.com etc. which will point/forward to different folders. The aaa.test.com one will point to /var/www/aaa/index.php and the bbb.test.com to /var/www/bbb/index.php. To summarize, different aliases - same domain - different folders all in apache. How do I achieve that ?
There can only exist one DocumentRoot per VirtualHost container. Since you have specified different DocumentRoot for each aaa.test.com, bbb.test.com etc, you need to setup a separate VirtualHost for each:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName aaa.test.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/aaa
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
...
</VirtualHost>
and so on.
As aaa.test.com and bbb.test.com should point to different directories, You are required to create separate Virtualhost entries manually. Before that you have to remove the _*.test.com_ from the ServerAlias of test.com Virtualhost entry. Then create a file at /etc/apache2/sites-available , say aaa.test.com and add the following and then save
<Virtualhost *:80>
ServerName aaa.test.com
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
DocumentRoot "/var/www/aaa/"
</Virtualhost>
make sure to restart/reload the apache service.
Do the same for bbb.test.com.. That is all you required to do... All d best :)
So I've set up a Amazon EC2 and registerd a few domains with 123-reg, i've set up my Apache VirtualHost But now I'm going to need to set up a few sub domains (like kitten.example.com). But it's only going to be a few, and I would like the rest of the subdomain wild cards to go to the base like this:
kitten.example.com -> kitten.example.com BUT
*.example.com -> example.com
currently my DNS with 123-reg is as follows:
www A 198.168.0.0
kitten A 198.168.0.0
* A 198.168.0.0
and my Apache httpd.conf is:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/example.com"
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias example.com
<Directory "/var/www/example.com">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/kitten.example.com"
ServerName kitten.example.com
ServerAlias kitten.example.com
<Directory "/var/www/kitten.example.com">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
so how do i redirect all those wildecard subdomains to my base domain?
You will have to map DocumentRoot and Directory to your base domain directory.
or if you wish to change the domain name also, then write a .htaccess rule for it.
Create a virtual host directive that doesn't specify the ServerName or ServerAlias. This will catch all virtual hosts on that IP address (you specifcy all IP's on port 80) that do not map to any other virtual host specification.
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /www/default
...
</VirtualHost>
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/examples.html#default
However, if you want to send a 301 HTTP Header (permanently redirected), you'll need to use mod_rewrite or something similar:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
How to setup Apache mod_rewrite to redirect all but one subfolder is one good example .. needs to be modified to suit your needs if the first option isn't sufficient for your needs.