How To Setup Apache Virtual Host Configuration (With Examples)

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• ramesh July 27, 2011, 2:48 am

  yes this is wat i ve been exactly looking for, vhost configuration with example 🙂 , thank you very much.

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• Anonymous July 27, 2011, 3:17 am

  That was very helpful. Thanx…

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• Ivan July 27, 2011, 4:16 am

  Very useful article, written so everybody can understand it.

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• Naveen July 27, 2011, 8:44 am

  Very useful. Keep posting such useful articles.

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• Vicky July 27, 2011, 5:08 pm

  That was a good stuff.Keep posting a lot like this

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• Gibson July 28, 2011, 1:39 am

  That was good stuff. makes Apache Virtual Host configuration painless. Thanks man keep it up.

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• Pepe Gil July 28, 2011, 1:51 am

  Thank you very much, I am a novice that has just installed a LAMP server and i was studying how to deal with virtual hosts; you make my way to the internet clearer. Thanks again!!!

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• saeed July 28, 2011, 11:24 pm

  Thanks Ramesh, it was quick and clear. For IP based virtual hosting it is also possible to have just a single NIC and assign secondary IP addresses to the interfaces in case customers need dedicated IP address for their website.

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• prabhakar prasad July 31, 2011, 2:38 am

  Thanks sir,i find this very helpful .Please give knowledge how to configure firewall in linux .

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• Ali November 23, 2011, 12:13 pm

  Thank you for very well detailed instructions.

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• Anonymous January 4, 2012, 3:53 am

  verry clear, nice post. thanks a lot.

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• Anonymous February 20, 2012, 9:36 pm

  Hi,
  If I enter IP address in my address bar which site it’ll shows.
  thanks

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• Anonymous February 23, 2012, 10:19 am

  Hi, I followed your instructions and was having some errors on an AWS Micro instance. What resolved it for me was using just filenames in the log files rather than new directories; the permissions on the AWS image were such that apache can’t access subdirectories in the log folder and would fail to start.

  For instance, instead of:
  ErrorLog “logs/top5freeware/error_log”
  Use:
  ErrorLog “logs/top5freeware_error_log”

  Hope this helps somebody else out. Great instructions!

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• The Incredible LOAP March 10, 2012, 5:54 am

  I got it working only after updating /etc/hosts this way:

  127.0.0.1 virtualhost

  (adding this line to the file)

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• MAC March 23, 2012, 9:03 am

  Have you ever done the same on the same IP for SSL traffics.

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• Vishal May 31, 2012, 10:59 pm

  I want to setup the apache virtual host in my server

  My registered Domain name is http://www.abcd.com

  Name server1: NS1.ABCD.COM

  Name server2: NS2.ABCD.COM

  My static ip: 112.123.124.195

  I can access my website from the static ip address shown above, but now want to setup the vhost file to access this server from the http://www.abcd.com

  My current virtual host file is as following. Please help me to set up this file for accessing from the registered domain.

  enter code here
  #
  # Virtual Hosts
  #
  # If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
  # machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
  # use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn’t need to worry about
  # IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
  #
  # Please see the documentation at
  #
  # for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
  #
  # You may use the command line option ‘-S’ to verify your virtual host
  # configuration.

  #
  # Use name-based virtual hosting.
  #
  ##NameVirtualHost *:80

  #
  # VirtualHost example:
  # Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
  # The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
  # match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any block.
  #
  ##
  ##ServerAdmin postmaster@dummy-host.localhost
  ##DocumentRoot “G:/xampp/htdocs/dummy-host.localhost”
  ##ServerName dummy-host.localhost
  ##ServerAlias http://www.dummy-host.localhost
  ##ErrorLog “logs/dummy-host.localhost-error.log”
  ##CustomLog “logs/dummy-host.localhost-access.log” combined
  ##

  ##
  ##ServerAdmin postmaster@dummy-host2.localhost
  ##DocumentRoot “G:/xampp/htdocs/dummy-host2.localhost”
  ##ServerName dummy-host2.localhost
  ##ServerAlias http://www.dummy-host2.localhost
  ##ErrorLog “logs/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log”
  ##CustomLog “logs/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log” combined
  ##

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• Subu Iyer June 25, 2012, 12:21 am

  Thanks for this valuable explanation. It helps !!!

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• Anonymous!! July 26, 2012, 4:59 am

  This was helpful…Thanks!!
  Can you please explain how to add files to our virtual hosts ??

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• manu August 22, 2012, 9:35 am

  hi – I actually need to host 2 web sites which are on 2 separate physcial machines.One web site is on windows/IIS [ www. siteA .com ] and one web site is onubuntu+apache [ www. siteB .com ] . I am thinking that the solution would entail having a third physical apache machine which should serve incoming requests to the correct site depending on what the http request contains. However – i cannot find details of how to do this. Has anyone ever done this ?

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• Donald September 4, 2012, 8:16 pm

  Assistance required, thank you
  Virtual hosts do not work
  configuration
  Windows Vista 32 bit
  Xampp
  Apache 2.2
  WSGI 3.3
  httpd.conf as follows:
  #
  # This is the main Apache HTTP server configuration file. It contains the
  # configuration directives that give the server its instructions.
  # See for detailed information.
  # In particular, see
  #
  # for a discussion of each configuration directive.
  #
  # Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding
  # what they do. They’re here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure
  # consult the online docs. You have been warned.
  #
  # Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many
  # of the server’s control files begin with “/” (or “drive:/” for Win32), the
  # server will use that explicit path. If the filenames do *not* begin
  # with “/”, the value of ServerRoot is prepended — so “logs/foo.log”
  # with ServerRoot set to “C:/XAMPP/apache” will be interpreted by the
  # server as “C:/XAMPP/apache/logs/foo.log”.
  #
  # NOTE: Where filenames are specified, you must use forward slashes
  # instead of backslashes (e.g., “c:/apache” instead of “c:\apache”).
  # If a drive letter is omitted, the drive on which httpd.exe is located
  # will be used by default. It is recommended that you always supply
  # an explicit drive letter in absolute paths to avoid confusion.

  #
  # ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server’s
  # configuration, error, and log files are kept.
  #
  # Do not add a slash at the end of the directory path. If you point
  # ServerRoot at a non-local disk, be sure to point the LockFile directive
  # at a local disk. If you wish to share the same ServerRoot for multiple
  # httpd daemons, you will need to change at least LockFile and PidFile.
  #
  ServerRoot “C:/XAMPP/apache”

  #
  # Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or
  # ports, instead of the default. See also the
  # directive.
  #
  # Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to
  # prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses.
  #
  #Listen 0.0.0.0:80
  #Listen [::]:80
  Listen 80

  #
  # Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support
  #
  # To be able to use the functionality of a module which was built as a DSO you
  # have to place corresponding `LoadModule’ lines at this location so the
  # directives contained in it are actually available _before_ they are used.
  # Statically compiled modules (those listed by `httpd -l’) do not need
  # to be loaded here.
  #
  # Example:
  # LoadModule foo_module modules/mod_foo.so
  #
  LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so
  LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
  LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so
  LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
  LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so
  #LoadModule authn_alias_module modules/mod_authn_alias.so
  #LoadModule authn_anon_module modules/mod_authn_anon.so
  #LoadModule authn_dbd_module modules/mod_authn_dbd.so
  #LoadModule authn_dbm_module modules/mod_authn_dbm.so
  LoadModule authn_default_module modules/mod_authn_default.so
  LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
  #LoadModule authnz_ldap_module modules/mod_authnz_ldap.so
  #LoadModule authz_dbm_module modules/mod_authz_dbm.so
  LoadModule authz_default_module modules/mod_authz_default.so
  LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
  LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so
  #LoadModule authz_owner_module modules/mod_authz_owner.so
  LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
  LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
  #LoadModule bucketeer_module modules/mod_bucketeer.so
  #LoadModule cache_module modules/mod_cache.so
  #LoadModule case_filter_module modules/mod_case_filter.so
  #LoadModule case_filter_in_module modules/mod_case_filter_in.so
  #LoadModule cern_meta_module modules/mod_cern_meta.so
  LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
  #LoadModule charset_lite_module modules/mod_charset_lite.so
  #LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
  #LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
  LoadModule dav_lock_module modules/mod_dav_lock.so
  #LoadModule dbd_module modules/mod_dbd.so
  #LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
  LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
  #LoadModule disk_cache_module modules/mod_disk_cache.so
  #LoadModule dumpio_module modules/mod_dumpio.so
  #LoadModule echo_module modules/mod_echo.so
  LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
  #LoadModule example_module modules/mod_example.so
  #LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
  #LoadModule ext_filter_module modules/mod_ext_filter.so
  #LoadModule file_cache_module modules/mod_file_cache.so
  #LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so
  LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
  #LoadModule ident_module modules/mod_ident.so
  #LoadModule imagemap_module modules/mod_imagemap.so
  LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so
  LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so
  LoadModule isapi_module modules/mod_isapi.so
  #LoadModule ldap_module modules/mod_ldap.so
  #LoadModule logio_module modules/mod_logio.so
  LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
  #LoadModule log_forensic_module modules/mod_log_forensic.so
  #LoadModule mem_cache_module modules/mod_mem_cache.so
  LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
  #LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so
  LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so
  LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
  LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so
  #LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so
  #LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
  #LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
  #LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
  LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
  LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
  #LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so
  LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
  LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
  #LoadModule substitute_module modules/mod_substitute.so
  #LoadModule unique_id_module modules/mod_unique_id.so
  #LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
  #LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so
  #LoadModule version_module modules/mod_version.so
  LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
  LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so

  #
  # If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
  # httpd as root initially and it will switch.
  #
  # User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
  # It is usually good practice to create a dedicated user and group for
  # running httpd, as with most system services.
  #
  User daemon
  Group daemon

  # ‘Main’ server configuration
  #
  # The directives in this section set up the values used by the ‘main’
  # server, which responds to any requests that aren’t handled by a
  # definition. These values also provide defaults for
  # any containers you may define later in the file.
  #
  # All of these directives may appear inside containers,
  # in which case these default settings will be overridden for the
  # virtual host being defined.
  #

  #
  # ServerAdmin: Your address, where problems with the server should be
  # e-mailed. This address appears on some server-generated pages, such
  # as error documents. e.g. admin@your-domain.com
  #
  ServerAdmin postmaster@localhost

  #
  # ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.
  # This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify
  # it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.
  #
  # If your host doesn’t have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
  #
  ServerName localhost:80

  #
  # DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
  # documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
  # symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
  #
  ##DocumentRoot “C:/XAMPP/htdocs”

  #
  # Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
  # to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
  # directory (and its subdirectories).
  #
  # First, we configure the “default” to be a very restrictive set of
  # features.
  #
  ##
  ## Options FollowSymLinks
  ## AllowOverride None
  ## Order deny,allow
  ## Deny from all
  ##

  #
  # Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
  # particular features to be enabled – so if something’s not working as
  # you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
  # below.
  #

  #
  # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
  #
  ##
  #
  # Possible values for the Options directive are “None”, “All”,
  # or any combination of:
  # Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
  #
  # Note that “MultiViews” must be named *explicitly* — “Options All”
  # doesn’t give it to you.
  #
  # The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
  # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options
  # for more information.
  #
  ## Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI

  #
  # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
  # It can be “All”, “None”, or any combination of the keywords:
  # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
  #
  ## AllowOverride All

  #
  # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
  #
  ## Order allow,deny
  ## Allow from all

  ##

  #
  # DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
  # is requested.
  #

  DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.asp index.shtml index.html index.htm \
  default.php default.pl default.cgi default.asp default.shtml default.html default.htm \
  home.php home.pl home.cgi home.asp home.shtml home.html home.htm

  #
  # The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being
  # viewed by Web clients.
  #

  Order allow,deny
  Deny from all
  Satisfy All

  #
  # ErrorLog: The location of the error log file.
  # If you do not specify an ErrorLog directive within a
  # container, error messages relating to that virtual host will be
  # logged here. If you *do* define an error logfile for a
  # container, that host’s errors will be logged there and not here.
  #
  ErrorLog “logs/error.log”

  #ScriptLog “logs/cgi.log”

  #
  # LogLevel: Control the number of messages logged to the error_log.
  # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
  # alert, emerg.
  #
  LogLevel warn

  #
  # The following directives define some format nicknames for use with
  # a CustomLog directive (see below).
  #
  LogFormat “%h %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b \”%{Referer}i\” \”%{User-Agent}i\”” combined
  LogFormat “%h %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b” common

  # You need to enable mod_logio.c to use %I and %O
  LogFormat “%h %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b \”%{Referer}i\” \”%{User-Agent}i\” %I %O” combinedio

  #
  # The location and format of the access logfile (Common Logfile Format).
  # If you do not define any access logfiles within a
  # container, they will be logged here. Contrariwise, if you *do*
  # define per- access logfiles, transactions will be
  # logged therein and *not* in this file.
  #
  #CustomLog “logs/access.log” common

  #
  # If you prefer a logfile with access, agent, and referer information
  # (Combined Logfile Format) you can use the following directive.
  #
  CustomLog “logs/access.log” combined

  #
  # Redirect: Allows you to tell clients about documents that used to
  # exist in your server’s namespace, but do not anymore. The client
  # will make a new request for the document at its new location.
  # Example:
  # Redirect permanent /foo http://localhost/bar

  #
  # Alias: Maps web paths into filesystem paths and is used to
  # access content that does not live under the DocumentRoot.
  # Example:
  # Alias /webpath /full/filesystem/path
  #
  # If you include a trailing / on /webpath then the server will
  # require it to be present in the URL. You will also likely
  # need to provide a section to allow access to
  # the filesystem path.

  #
  # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
  # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
  # documents in the target directory are treated as applications and
  # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the
  # client. The same rules about trailing “/” apply to ScriptAlias
  # directives as to Alias.
  #
  ##ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ “C:/XAMPP/cgi-bin/”

  #
  # ScriptSock: On threaded servers, designate the path to the UNIX
  # socket used to communicate with the CGI daemon of mod_cgid.
  #
  #Scriptsock “logs/cgi.sock”

  #
  # “C:/XAMPP/cgi-bin” should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
  # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
  #
  ##
  ## AllowOverride None
  ## Options None
  ## Order allow,deny
  ## Allow from all
  ##

  #
  # DefaultType: the default MIME type the server will use for a document
  # if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions.
  # If your server contains mostly text or HTML documents, “text/plain” is
  # a good value. If most of your content is binary, such as applications
  # or images, you may want to use “application/octet-stream” instead to
  # keep browsers from trying to display binary files as though they are
  # text.
  #
  DefaultType text/plain

  #
  # TypesConfig points to the file containing the list of mappings from
  # filename extension to MIME-type.
  #
  TypesConfig “conf/mime.types”

  #
  # AddType allows you to add to or override the MIME configuration
  # file specified in TypesConfig for specific file types.
  #
  #AddType application/x-gzip .tgz
  #
  # AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers uncompress
  # information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this.
  #
  #AddEncoding x-compress .Z
  #AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz
  #
  # If the AddEncoding directives above are commented-out, then you
  # probably should define those extensions to indicate media types:
  #
  AddType application/x-compress .Z
  AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz

  #
  # AddHandler allows you to map certain file extensions to “handlers”:
  # actions unrelated to filetype. These can be either built into the server
  # or added with the Action directive (see below)
  #
  # To use CGI scripts outside of ScriptAliased directories:
  # (You will also need to add “ExecCGI” to the “Options” directive.)
  #
  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .asp

  # For type maps (negotiated resources):
  #AddHandler type-map var

  #
  # Filters allow you to process content before it is sent to the client.
  #
  # To parse .shtml files for server-side includes (SSI):
  # (You will also need to add “Includes” to the “Options” directive.)
  #
  AddType text/html .shtml
  AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

  #
  # The mod_mime_magic module allows the server to use various hints from the
  # contents of the file itself to determine its type. The MIMEMagicFile
  # directive tells the module where the hint definitions are located.
  #
  MIMEMagicFile “conf/magic”

  #
  # Customizable error responses come in three flavors:
  # 1) plain text 2) local redirects 3) external redirects
  #
  # Some examples:
  #ErrorDocument 500 “The server made a boo boo.”
  #ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
  #ErrorDocument 404 “/cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl”
  #ErrorDocument 402 http://localhost/subscription_info.html
  #

  #
  # EnableMMAP and EnableSendfile: On systems that support it,
  # memory-mapping or the sendfile syscall is used to deliver
  # files. This usually improves server performance, but must
  # be turned off when serving from networked-mounted
  # filesystems or if support for these functions is otherwise
  # broken on your system.
  #
  #EnableMMAP off
  #EnableSendfile off

  # Supplemental configuration
  #
  # The configuration files in the conf/extra/ directory can be
  # included to add extra features or to modify the default configuration of
  # the server, or you may simply copy their contents here and change as
  # necessary.

  # XAMPP specific settings
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-xampp.conf”

  # Perl settings
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-perl.conf”

  # Server-pool management (MPM specific)
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf”

  # Multi-language error messages
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf”

  # Fancy directory listings
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf”

  # Language settings
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-languages.conf”

  # User home directories
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf”

  # Real-time info on requests and configuration
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-info.conf”

  # Virtual hosts
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf”

  # Distributed authoring and versioning (WebDAV)
  # Attention! WEB_DAV is a security risk without a new userspecific configuration for a secure authentifcation
  # Include “conf/extra/httpd-dav.conf”

  # Implements a proxy/gateway for Apache.
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-proxy.conf”

  # Various default settings
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-default.conf”

  # Secure (SSL/TLS) connections
  Include “conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf”
  #
  # Note: The following must must be present to support
  # starting without SSL on platforms with no /dev/random equivalent
  # but a statically compiled-in mod_ssl.
  #

  SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
  SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
  SSLSessionCache “shmcb:logs/ssl.scache(512000)”
  SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300

  # AJP13 Proxy

  Include “conf/extra/httpd-ajp.conf”

  NameVirtualHost *:80

  ServerName firefly1.localhost
  ServerAlias http://www.firefly1.localhost
  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
  DocumentRoot C:\xampp\htdocs\documents
  ErrorLog “logs/firefly1/error.log”
  CustomLog “logs/firefly1/access.log” common

  #
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all

  ServerName firefly2local.localhost
  ServerAlias http://www.firefly2local.localhost
  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
  DocumentRoot C:\xampp\htdocs\documents
  ErrorLog “logs/firefly2/error.log”
  CustomLog “logs/firefly2/access.log” common

  Alias /robots.txt C:\xampp\htdocs\documents\robots.txt
  Alias /favicon.ico C:\xampp\htdocs\documents\favicon.ico
  Alias /media/ C:\xampp\htdocs\documents\media\

  #
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all

  #WSGIDaemonProcess localhost processes=2 threads=15 display-name=%{GROUP}
  #WSGIProcessGroup localhost

  #WSGIScriptAlias / /usr/local/www/wsgi-scripts/myapp.wsgi
  WSGIScriptAlias /myapp C:\xampp\htdocs\wsgi-scripts\myapp.wsgi

  #
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all

  The file myapp.wsgi is:
  def application(environ, start_response):
  status = ‘200 OK’
  output = ‘Hello World!’

  response_headers = [(‘Content-type’, ‘text/plain’),
  (‘Content-Length’, str(len(output)))]
  start_response(status, response_headers)

  return [output]

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• Donald September 4, 2012, 9:48 pm

  Hello Ramesh
  My previous post did not provide the error message which is “Server not found” when using http://www.firefly1.localhost or firefly2.localhost. The log files have no information.
  I have also changed all the back slashes in the path nems to forward slashes with the same results
  However if I use the URL ‘localhost” it works.

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• sachin gautam October 14, 2012, 6:22 am

  Thank you for very well detailed instructions.

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• HoGo November 15, 2012, 5:21 pm

  Thx a lot, it gave me a headache, just because on other samples NameVirtualHost record was missing.

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• Srabon December 29, 2012, 12:09 pm

  @Donal did you restart the Apache Server ? ……do it …

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• Ben March 12, 2013, 12:35 am

  Hi Ramesh,

  Can you say me that how many name based virtual hosts are supported in apache ?

  Regards,
  Ben

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• Make April 8, 2013, 6:03 am

  Thanks for the awesome tutorial! 🙂

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• Jacques June 14, 2013, 3:04 am

  Hi Ramesh
  Do you still reply to the post and questions
  Thanks for tutorial, How do I set it so it works on my localhost also.
  For instance on my development pc.
  Obviously on my local host i cant type www but i can type localhost
  so what must the header be for second virtual site so apache knows which root to open.

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• shivakumar July 2, 2013, 2:32 am

  Thanks.
  It was really helpful

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• Mickey Taylor October 9, 2013, 8:26 pm

  Thanks, this helped. I was wanting to figure this out and be able to do it manually. One problem that I had after setting up my http-vhost.conf file, I had to go back and comment out the DocumentRoot section of the httpd.conf file before it would work properly. After commenting the DocumentRoot section out everything ran smoothly.

  Thanks,
  Mick

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• Sohail Ahmed November 6, 2013, 10:28 am

  Great article!
  Just a little spelling mistake, “it servers different websites” it should be “serves” instead.

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• Jonathan November 12, 2013, 9:47 pm

  Hello,

  Can you help me? every time I uncomment the “Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf” the apache stop running / not working.

  Thanks in advance

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• Sohail Ahmed November 17, 2013, 12:01 pm

  So what is in the httpd-vhosts.conf file? And what the apache log says about it? Apache log location is /etc/httpd/logs/

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• saththiyan December 4, 2013, 9:31 pm

  Am using bitnami,

  I have installed two wordpress instances , one is /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress
  other one is /opt/bitnami/apps/str

  i have configured virtual hosting and i can access wordpress ( domain 1) with out any issues, but the second wordpress instance ( str) only the home page woking , i can’t go to any other tab or link,

  Anyidea why its happening?

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• Vijay Kanta December 30, 2013, 3:57 am

  Good article. Very clean steps. Your effort is laudable.
  However, I have been unsuccessful in configuring virtual hosts in my local development machine. I need cgi-bin directories for each website I am building. Any solutions?

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• n0rb February 5, 2014, 4:07 pm

  I’m used to putting vhosts in conf.d/ what is the difference of putting them in /usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf ?

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• Shubham Tomar March 19, 2014, 10:11 am

  this is very helpful for the learners as like me . Thanks a lot for this one

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• Sandeep March 28, 2014, 3:13 am

  thank you very much

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• omair April 16, 2014, 4:49 am

  Excellent explanation man! It helps a lot.

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• Sagar Bangera May 2, 2014, 7:40 am

  I had configured httpd Server on CentOS.

  1.Created index.html file in /var/www/html/, Server working fine.
  2.Enabled vhosts, Created index.html in vhosts directory but 403 error Forbidden.

  All permissions are OK, but still I am unable to fix the issue.

  Need help.

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• Ozuola June 1, 2014, 2:58 pm

  Although this post was written in 2011, it has solved my problem of how to config virtual host.Thanks

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• Ramkumar July 24, 2014, 4:21 am

  very nice article.

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• Ankur Sharma June 12, 2015, 8:14 pm

  Very nicely written.

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• Grazi7 July 1, 2015, 10:17 am

  Thanks a lot man!

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• Pasquale October 12, 2015, 6:29 am

  In this manner, however, the original ip become unreachable, there’s a way to keep the original ip working?

  thanks

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• Lokesh February 6, 2016, 12:49 pm

  Hi,

  I just have one query, if am not defining my virtual host settings not in httpd.conf file but defining them in separate location (/etc/httpd/conf.d/virtual.conf) and in virtual.conf file.

  So in above case do i need to define any where to read from this file .

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• AJ June 9, 2016, 9:25 am

  very well documented. Thank you.

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• Adarsh Reddy May 3, 2017, 9:06 am

  Thank much brother. Keep up the good work. This is exactly what I was looking for.

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