Question about Apache and virtual hosts on a local development server...???
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-sites/default file as it is now. I left the default settings and then just added a new virtual host for a new web site.
So the way I understand it now is that I´d update DNS for beta-sandbox.angelleye.com to point to this server now and because of the virtual host config it would correctly point it to /home/angelleye/www.
What about local browsing, though? I´m hitting my server using 192.168.1.136. beta-sandbox.angelleye.com will mean nothing to the other computers on my network. Is there some way I add that to my local machines DNS only??
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>
> What about local browsing, though? I´m hitting my server using 192.168.1.136.
> beta-sandbox.angelleye.com will mean nothing to the other computers on my network. Is there some
> 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\drivers\etc
add your sites called:
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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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
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