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Question about Apache and virtual hosts on a local development server...???
Posted on 2009-05-15
I´ve got Ubuntu 9 installed in a VM with lamp + phpmyadmin installed and working great. I´d like to figure out how to configure virtual hosts now so I can setup my clients with their own testing servers from this.
What I´m reading seems pretty straight forward except I´m confused about how to browse different sites locally. For example, I´ve included my /etc/apache2/available-sit
So the way I understand it now is that I´d update DNS for beta-sandbox.angelleye.com
What about local browsing, though? I´m hitting my server using 192.168.1.136. beta-sandbox.angelleye.com
I´ve got Windows and Mac machines on this network that will need to reach this test server and call up each site accordingly. Any information on how I can do this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
What I´m reading seems pretty straight forward except I´m confused about how to browse different sites locally. For example, I´ve included my /etc/apache2/available-sit
So the way I understand it now is that I´d update DNS for beta-sandbox.angelleye.com
What about local browsing, though? I´m hitting my server using 192.168.1.136. beta-sandbox.angelleye.com
I´ve got Windows and Mac machines on this network that will need to reach this test server and call up each site accordingly. Any information on how I can do this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /home/angelley/www
ServerName beta-sandbox.angelleye.com
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /home/angelley/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
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Hi,
Apache works this way:
As an example say you have 2 domains that you want to have websites such as:
www.domain.com
w3.anotherdomain.com
- You just edit your DNS sones and add records like this:
domain.com DNS zone file:
www IN A x.x.x.x
danotherdomain.com DNS zone file:
w3 IN A x.x.x.x
So that bothe www.domain.com and w3.domain.com will point to your Apache server's IP address.
Then you'll have your Apache configuration and you'll tell your apache that
- You'll have 2 virtual servers called:
www.doamian.com and w3.danotherdomain.com.
- You'll tell apache wihc folder contains website files for each of them
Apache works this way:
As an example say you have 2 domains that you want to have websites such as:
www.domain.com
w3.anotherdomain.com
- You just edit your DNS sones and add records like this:
domain.com DNS zone file:
www IN A x.x.x.x
danotherdomain.com DNS zone file:
w3 IN A x.x.x.x
So that bothe www.domain.com and w3.domain.com will point to your Apache server's IP address.
Then you'll have your Apache configuration and you'll tell your apache that
- You'll have 2 virtual servers called:
www.doamian.com and w3.danotherdomain.com.
- You'll tell apache wihc folder contains website files for each of them
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /home/angelley/www
ServerName www.domain.com
<Directory /home/angelley/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/www-domain-com-error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/www-domain-com-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /home/angelley/w3
ServerName w3.anotherdomain.com
<Directory /home/angelley/w3/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/w3/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/w3-anotherdomain-com-error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/w3-antoherdomain-com-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
You can omit /cgi-bin alias. If you do cgi-bin will point to a subfolder called cgi-bin under the home directory.
You can omit <Directory ... Directives. then System defaults wiill kick in.
You'd like to give a special name denoting your site to the logfiles so that you can follow each viertualhost from their unique filenames.
There was a mistake in my example above the directory optin was /usr/lib/cgi-bin instead of /usr/lib/w3/cgi-bin
The corrected snippet as follows:
You can omit <Directory ... Directives. then System defaults wiill kick in.
You'd like to give a special name denoting your site to the logfiles so that you can follow each viertualhost from their unique filenames.
There was a mistake in my example above the directory optin was /usr/lib/cgi-bin instead of /usr/lib/w3/cgi-bin
The corrected snippet as follows:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/w3/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/w3/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
> What about local browsing, though? I´m hitting my server using 192.168.1.136.
> beta-sandbox.angelleye.com
> way I add that to my local machines DNS only??
You can do 2 things:
- Either you can edit your /etc/hosts in linux or C:\WINDOWS\system32\driver
add your sites called:
191.168.1.136 beta-sandbox.angelleye.com
So that when you type http://beta-sandbox.angelleye.com you'll get your page.
Don't forget that Apache does virtualhosting matching the original request hostpart with virtualserver names it is configured for not IP address basis. So if it can match the hostname part of the incoming request then it serves is from the configured directory.
Another option ais t1 setup an internal DNS so that you'll serve your pages from there.
> beta-sandbox.angelleye.com
> way I add that to my local machines DNS only??
You can do 2 things:
- Either you can edit your /etc/hosts in linux or C:\WINDOWS\system32\driver
add your sites called:
191.168.1.136 beta-sandbox.angelleye.com
So that when you type http://beta-sandbox.angelleye.com you'll get your page.
Don't forget that Apache does virtualhosting matching the original request hostpart with virtualserver names it is configured for not IP address basis. So if it can match the hostname part of the incoming request then it serves is from the configured directory.
Another option ais t1 setup an internal DNS so that you'll serve your pages from there.
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