How-to Create an Apache 2 Virtual Host on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial LTS Easy Guide

October 25th, 2016 by thelinuxevangelist

Make Apache 2 Virtual Host Ubuntu 16.04

Hello Ubuntu User! The Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How-to Create Apache 2 Virtual Host in Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial LTS GNU/Linux Server/Desktop.

And the term Virtual Host refers to the practice of running more than one web site (such as company1.example.com and company2.example.com) on a single machine.

Virtual Hosts can be:

  • “Name-based“, meaning that you have multiple names running on each IP address
  • “IP-based“, meaning that you have a different IP address for every web site

Because the fact that they are running on the same physical server is not apparent to the end user.

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  1. Login into Server Shell

    Or Open a Command Line Terminal Window
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)


    Ctrl+Alt+T

    - Open Terminal

  2. Add the Domain to the Host Config File

    sudo su

    If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then Look: Solution

    nano /etc/hosts

    Append:

    127.0.0.1	[myDomainName.com]

    Only Substitute Your real Domain Name to “[myDomainName.com]” :)
    Ctrl+Shift+v to Paste Content into nano
    Ctrl+x to Save and Exit from nano Editor

  3. Create the VHost Target Directory

    mkdir /var/www/html/[mySite]

    And may be also a Testing index.html:

    echo "The New Web-Site is Working on Apache2!" >> /var/www/html/[mySite]/index.html

    Then Set the Web Server User Permission… 

    chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/[mySite]

  4. Create a VHost Config File

    nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/[myDomainName].conf

    Append at Least:

    <VirtualHost *:80>	
ServerName	[myDomainName.com]
ServerAlias	www.[myDomainName.com]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/[mySite]
</VirtualHost>

    To get a little More Insight may look:

    cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

  5. Enabling the New Virtual-Host

    cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
    ln -s ../sites-available/[myDomainName].conf .

  6. Restart Apache2 Web Server

    service apache2 restart
    exit

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