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Set Up Name-Based Virtual Hosts In Apache

If your server has only one IP  (or even if you have many) and you want to host different websites you can use Apache’s name-based virtual hosts feature.

Setting up name-based virtual hosts is easy. First, open up httpd.conf found in the conf directory of your Apache installation directory.

First, you need to enable name-based virtual hosting. Make sure to uncomment the line that does this:

NameVirtualHost *:80

If your server has multiple IPs you can choose which IP will host name-based virtual hosts

NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.1:80

Now you can define different sites for every DNS name your server has. Just add the following for every name:

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1:80>
   ServerAdmin [email protected]
   DocumentRoot /www/docs/www.example.com
   ServerName www.example.com
   ServerAlias www2.example.com www3.example.com
   ErrorLog logs/www.example.com-error_log
   CustomLog logs/www.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

ServerName is the required for the first DNS name. For additional DNS names corresponding to the same virtual host, you can use ServerAlias and add as many DNS names you want separated by spaces.

Don’t forget you can mix and match IPs and ports as in IP-based virtual hosts.

Save and restart Apache.

That’s it!

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Set Up IP-Based Virtual Hosts In Apache

If your server has multiple IPs  and you want to host different website for each IP you can use Apache’s IP-based virtual hosts feature.

Setting up IP-based virtual hosts is easy. First, open up httpd.conf found in the conf directory of your Apache installation directory.

You need to register the IPs that you want Apache to listen on. After the line that says “Listen 80” add:

Listen 10.0.0.1:80
Listen 10.0.0.2:80

If you wish to host websites on ports other than port 80, let’s say 8080, you also need to register it as a port that Apache listens on.

Listen 8080

You can also listen to specific address and port combinations:

Listen 10.0.0.1:8081
Listen 10.0.0.2:8082

Normally, Apache will respond to requests with the default site as defined in httpd.conf. However, you can define different sites for every address and port combination defined in your listen directive. Just add the following for every combination:

<VirtualHost ip-address:port-number>
   ServerAdmin [email protected]
   DocumentRoot /www/docs/www.example.com
   ServerName www.example.com
   ErrorLog logs/www.example.com-error_log
   CustomLog logs/www.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80> means this virtual host will handle HTTP requests for any IP on port 80. This virtual host corresponds to “Listen 80”.

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1:80> means this virtual host will handle HTTP requests for 10.0.0.1  on port 80. This virtual host corresponds to “Listen 10.0.0.1:80”.

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.2:80> means this virtual host will handle HTTP requests for 10.0.0.2  on port 80. This virtual host corresponds to “Listen 10.0.0.2:80”.

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1:8081> means that this virtual host will handle HTTP requests for the IP address 10.0.0.1 on port 8081. This virtual host corresponds to “Listen 10.0.0.1:8081”.

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.2:8082> means that this virtual host will handle HTTP requests for the IP address 10.0.0.2 on port 8082. This virtual host corresponds to  “Listen 10.0.0.2:8082”.

Save and restart Apache.

That’s it!