Serving Multiple Domain Names with Apache

gcrew

I have a couple domain names from DynDNS and would like some of my web content to be available if accessed from one domain name and other content to be available if accessed from the other domain name. There is no shared content between domain names. Is there a way to do this?

Geoff

trossachs · Veteran Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 1204 Location: London

Do you not mean virtual hosts, where various domain.com addreses are served by the same server?

gcrew · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject:

I probably do mean virtual hosts. Could you help explain how to set them up? I assume I need to reinstall my webapps with the vhosts USE flag set. I haven't gotten very far so uninstalling and reinstalling everything isn't a big deal. Thanks.

Geoff

the_mgt · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 2:50 am Post subject:

The vhosts flag is just for some special applications, your apache does it without.
Look at this howto here for further information: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Linux_Virtual_Hosting_Server

gcrew · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:

I'm afraid that howto is far too detailed to be of any use to me. I'll tell you exactly what I want to do.

I have two domains I got from dyndns. I want to serve requests based on which name was used. If domain1 or localhost or my ip are used, I'd like to serve files from /var/www/localhost. If domain2 is used I'd like to server files from /var/www/domain2. Here is the entirety of the /etc/apache2/conf/vhosts/vhosts.conf file I tried using:

the_mgt · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:06 pm Post subject:

Yes Apache configuration is complex...
Try this here:

gcrew · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject:

I did what you said and then everything was going to domain2. This is what finally got it working: