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Step 1: Make a Directory for Each Site
You’ll create a directory for each site that you’ll be hosting, within the /var/www folder. This location newly created location is also dubbed the document root location; you’ll need to set this path later in the configuration file. Sub the domain.com and domain2.com for your domain names.
mkdir -p /var/www/domain.com/public_html
mkdir -p /var/www/domain2.com/public_html
Step 2: Set Folder Permissions
chmod -R 755 /var/www
Step 3: Set up an Index Page
To see a home page you’ll want to make sure the index.html file is created for each domain. Something as simple as “testing for domain.com” can be set within this file.
vim /var/www/domain.com/public_html/index.html
testing for domain.com
Save and quit by hitting the Escape button and typing :wq
Repeat the steps for your second domain, using the command below.
vim /var/www/domain2.com/public_html/index.html
Step 4: Copy the Config File for Each Site
Copy the default configuration file for each site, this will also ensure that you always have a default copy for future site creation.
cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain.com.conf
cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain2.com.conf
Step 5: Edit the Config File for Each Site
At the bare minimum, you’ll adjust and add the highlighted lines within the <VirtualHost *:80> and </VirtualHost> tags.
vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain.com.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.com/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Quit and Save with :wq. Repeat this process for your domain2.com.conf file, be sure to update your ServerName, ServerAlias and DocumentRoot for your second domain.
Step 6: Enable Your Config File
Out of the box, your server is set to read the default 000-default.conf file. But, in our previous step we made a new config file for each domain. So, we will need to disable the default file.
a2dissite 000-default.conf
To have your server mapped to your domains you’ll need to enable each of your newly made .conf files.
a2ensite domain.com.conf
a2ensite domain2.com.conf
We restart the Apache service to register our changes.
systemctl restart apache2