How to run multiple sites on one apache instance

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Spent hours going in circles following every guide I can find on the net   I want to have two sites running on a single apache instance  something like this - 192 168 2 8 site1 and 192 168 2 8 site2  I   ve been going round in circles  but at the moment I have two conf files in    sites-available  symlinked to sites-enabled     that look like this-   lt VirtualHost   2000 gt   ServerAdmin webmaster site1 com ServerName site1 ServerAlias site1    Indexes   Directory Root  DirectoryIndex index html DocumentRoot  home user site1     CGI Directory ScriptAlias  cgi-bin   home user site1 cgi-bin   Options  ExecCGI    Logfiles ErrorLog  home user site1 logs error log CustomLog  home user site1 logs access log combined   lt  VirtualHost gt    and   lt VirtualHost   3000 gt   ServerAdmin webmaster site2 com ServerName site2 ServerAlias site2    Indexes   Directory Root  DirectoryIndex index html DocumentRoot  home user site2     CGI Directory ScriptAlias  cgi-bin   home user site2 cgi-bin   Options  ExecCGI    Logfiles ErrorLog  home user site2 logs error log CustomLog  home user site2 logs access log combined   lt  VirtualHost gt    http conf looks like this-  NameVirtualHost   2000 NameVirtualHost   3000   At the moment I   m getting this error-   error  VirtualHost   80     mixing   ports and non-  ports with a NameVirtualHostaddress is not supported  proceeding with undefined results   Ports conf looks like this      although no guides have mentioned any need to edit this   NameVirtualHost   80  Listen 80  lt IfModule mod ssl c gt    If you add NameVirtualHost   443 here  you will also have to change   the VirtualHost statement in  etc apache2 sites-available default-ssl   to  lt VirtualHost   443 gt    Server Name Indication for SSL named virtual hosts is currently not   supported by MSIE on Windows XP  Listen 443  lt  IfModule gt    lt IfModule mod gnutls c gt  Listen 443  lt  IfModule gt    Can anyone give some simple instructions to get this running  Every guide I   ve found  says to do it a different way  and each one leads to different errors  I m obviously doing something wrong but have found no clear explanation of what that might be   Just want one site accessible on port 2000 and the other accessible on port 3000  or whatever  just picked those ports to test with    I   m running Ubuntu server 12 04                    EDIT  Followed another  guide      I ve now set this up in sites-available    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      DocumentRoot   home user site1       ServerName 192 168 2 10 site1  lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      DocumentRoot   home user site2       ServerName 192 168 2 10 site2  lt  VirtualHost gt    Have set this in apache2 conf   ServerName site1 ServerName site2   Have added this to ports conf   Listen 192 168 2 10 80                   EDIT  It now works  I put this in a conf file in site-enabled    lt VirtualHost   81 gt      DocumentRoot   home user site1       ServerName site1  lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   82 gt      DocumentRoot   home user site2       ServerName site2  lt  VirtualHost gt    I have this in ports conf   Listen   80 Listen   81 Listen   82   I have this in apache2 conf   ServerName site1 ServerName site2   I didn t find this in any guides I just got it working through an entire day of trial and error so I don t know if this is a good solution  But it s at least working how I want it to now

User · Accepted Answer

Your question is mixing a few different concepts. You started out saying you wanted to run sites on the same server using the same domain, but in different folders. That doesn't require any special setup. Once you get the single domain running, you just create folders under that docroot.

Based on the rest of your question, what you really want to do is run various sites on the same server with their own domain names.

The best documentation you'll find on the topic is the virtual host documentation in the apache manual.

There are two types of virtual hosts: name-based and IP-based. Name-based allows you to use a single IP address, while IP-based requires a different IP for each site. Based on your description above, you want to use name-based virtual hosts.

The initial error you were getting was due to the fact that you were using different ports than the NameVirtualHost line. If you really want to have sites served from ports other than 80, you'll need to have a NameVirtualHost entry for each port.

Assuming you're starting from scratch, this is much simpler than it may seem.

If you are using 2.3 or earlier, the first thing you need to do is tell Apache that you're going to use name-based virtual hosts.

NameVirtualHost *:80

If you are using 2.4 or later do not add a NameVirtualHost line. Version 2.4 of Apache deprecated the NameVirtualHost directive, and it will be removed in a future version.

Now your vhost definitions:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/home/user/site1/"
    ServerName site1
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/home/user/site2/"
    ServerName site2
</VirtualHost>

You can run as many sites as you want on the same port. The ServerName being different is enough to tell Apache which vhost to use. Also, the ServerName directive is always the domain/hostname and should never include a path.

If you decide to run sites on a port other than 80, you'll always have to include the port number in the URL when accessing the site. So instead of going to http://example.com you would have to go to http://example.com:81

User · Answer

Yes with Virtual Host you can have as many parallel programs as you want   Open       etc httpd conf httpd conf   Listen 81 Listen 82 Listen 83   lt VirtualHost   81 gt      ServerAdmin webmaster site1 com     DocumentRoot  var www site1 html     ServerName site1 com     ErrorLog logs site1-error log     CustomLog logs site1-access log common     ScriptAlias  cgi-bin    var www site1 cgi-bin    lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   82 gt      ServerAdmin webmaster site2 com     DocumentRoot  var www site2 html     ServerName site2 com     ErrorLog logs site2-error log     CustomLog logs site2-access log common     ScriptAlias  cgi-bin    var www site2 cgi-bin    lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   83 gt      ServerAdmin webmaster site3 com     DocumentRoot  var www site3 html     ServerName site3 com     ErrorLog logs site3-error log     CustomLog logs site3-access log common     ScriptAlias  cgi-bin    var www site3 cgi-bin    lt  VirtualHost gt    Restart apache  service httpd restart  You can now refer Site1    http    lt ip-address gt  81   http    lt ip-address gt  81 cgi-bin    Site2    http    lt ip-address gt  82  http    lt ip-address gt  82 cgi-bin    Site3    http    lt ip-address gt  83   http    lt ip-address gt  83 cgi-bin    If path is not hardcoded in any script then your websites should work seamlessly

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