This example is made expressly to work on a local environment and
for to work on a Server Host you need to change IP settings consequently…
1) Insert the Hostname you want to Add in /etc/hosts
Ex:
sudo pico /etc/hosts
So to work on a local domain you add on line 127.0.0.1 something like:
127.0.0.1 localhost drupal
2) Next you need to create a Referring file in /etc/apache2/sites-available
sudo touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/drupal
sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-available/drupal
To set a Name-Based Virtual Host on port 80 you insert in this blank file something like:
ServerName drupal
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php
DocumentRoot /var/www/drupal
Make Virtual Host’s Directory:
sudo mkdir /var/www/drupal
Don’t put at beginning “NameVirtualHost *:80” if it’s already defined in /etc/apache2/ports.conf because your Virtual Host don’t will work :)
Just to check look output of:
cat /etc/apache2/ports.conf
if contains this statement or not
Then you need also to add a reference for the new Hostname in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
sudo pico /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
And insert:
ServerName drupal
Latest, to keep your localhost working like before you need to edit:
sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default
And Insert a line with:
ServerName localhost
3) After you need to activate the new configuration
sudo a2ensite drupal
4) Latest Reload Apache
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
To check it’s effectively working:
su -c "'Welcome to Drupal!' > /var/www/drupal/index.html"
Test opening the address: http://drupal/index.html
You should be Greeted with a href=”Welcome to Drupal!” :)
Good Luck!
