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

October 25, 2016 | By the+gnu+linux+evangelist | Filed in: Tutorial.

Make Apache 2 Virtual Host Ubuntu 16.04

You are Welcome! 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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Login into Server Shell

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

Ctrl+Alt+T
Add the Domain to the hosts Config File
```
sudo su
```
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
```
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

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 Domain’s Ownership with:

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

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

Enabling the New Virtual-Host

cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled

ln -s ../sites-available/[myDomainName].conf .

Restart Apache2 Web Server
```
service apache2 restart
```
```
exit
```

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