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copied!<p>Repasting my answer from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4809112/hosting-two-domains-using-only-one-vps/12654999#12654999">Hosting two domains using only one VPS?</a> as here it is even more relevant.</p> <p>As complete beginner, I have been trying to host multiple domains on one Apache VPS. Tutorials had too much information that lead me to confusion. </p> <p>Below I describe, for complete beginners, how to host multiple domains on one VPS server with Ubuntu and Apache.</p> <p><strong>IMPORTANT!</strong> You need to use root account to execute most operations.</p> <p><strong>IMPORTANT!</strong> If you have been trying to make some changes to apache configuration before, undo them.</p> <h2>Creating VirtualHosts</h2> <p>Create folders for your domains on server. For example:</p> <pre><code>/home/apache/domain1 /home/apache/domain2 </code></pre> <p>Put index.html file in each folder with any text.</p> <pre><code>This is domain1 This is domain2 </code></pre> <p>Go to <code>/etc/apache2/sites-available</code> folder.</p> <p>Create file domain1.conf</p> <pre><code>sudo nano domain1.conf <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /home/apache/domain1 ServerName domain1.com ServerAlias www.domain1.com </VirtualHost> </code></pre> <p>Create file domain2.conf</p> <pre><code>sudo nano domain2.conf <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /home/apache/domain2 ServerName domain2.com ServerAlias www.domain2.com </VirtualHost> </code></pre> <p>You can create subdomains same way.</p> <pre><code>sudo nano blog.conf <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /home/apache/blog ServerName blog.domain.com ServerAlias www.blog.domain.com </VirtualHost> </code></pre> <p>Enable created sites</p> <pre><code>sudo a2ensite domain1.conf sudo a2ensite domain2.conf </code></pre> <p>Restart apache</p> <pre><code>sudo service apache2 reload </code></pre> <h2>Redirecting domain to server</h2> <p>Created VirtualHosts will work only if you redirect your domain name to server IP. Domains are just names that can be translated to IP numbers.</p> <h3>Local computer</h3> <p>To test your configuration on local machine, you need to edit hosts file.</p> <pre><code>sudo nano /etc/hosts </code></pre> <p>It should look like this.</p> <pre><code>127.0.0.1 localhost domain1.com domain2.com </code></pre> <p>Hosts file tells your computer that domain needs to be redirected to local machine.</p> <p><strong>IMPORTANT!</strong> If you create entry in hosts file for existing domain, for example</p> <pre><code>127.0.0.1 stackoverflow.com </code></pre> <p>you will loose access to this website.</p> <h3>Server</h3> <p>In order to redirect domain to you web server, you need to create or modify "A"-type DNS record for given domain to IP address of your server. You can do it by panel control provided by your domain registrar.</p> <p>If you do not know IP address of your server, log in to that server and type in command line:</p> <pre><code>ifconfig </code></pre>

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