Multiple domains (virtual hosts) in apache

By admin on 03/06/2006

This information is everywhere and is by no means anything special. But as a recent convert to apache from IIS I need somewhere to put this as reference:

To setup multiple hosts in apache, add the following into http.conf

  <VirtualHost 10.1.2.3>

    
  DocumentRoot /www/vhost1


    
  ServerName  www.my-dom.com


    
  </VirtualHost>

Full details over on apache.org

Genius huh?

I've also been creating symlinks to my user's public_html folder, a symlink is kindof a shortcut or virtual directory equivilent in windows/iis. The following command line code is used for creating symlinks:

ln -s /home/your_user_name/public_html/folder /srv/www/htdocs/folder"

This creates a shortcut from the Apache htdocs to the users personal html docs.