Here is the very simple method how to host multi websites on ubuntu
- Open SSH or FTP using root login
- Type: cd /var/www/
- Add your first domain Use This Command: Sudo mkdir -p /var/www/example1.com/public_html
- to add more websites you can add your other domain in the same way. Command mkdir -p /var/www/example2.com/public_html
- Give Full Permission to these Website directory Command: sudo chown -R www-data: /var/www/example1.com
- do same with other domains Command: sudo chown -R www-data: /var/www/dexample2.com
Creating Virtual Hosts On Ubuntu systems, Apache Virtual Hosts configuration files are located in
/etc/apache2/sites-available directory.
They can be enabled by creating symbolic links to the
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory,
which Apache read during the startup.
Open your text editor of choice and create the following basic Virtual Host configuration file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName domain1.com
ServerAlias www.domain1.com
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain1.com/public_html
<Directory /var/www/domain1.com/public_html>
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain1.com-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain1.com-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
ServerName: The domain that should match for this virtual host configuration. This should be your domain name.ServerAlias: All other domains or subdomains that should match for this virtual host such as thewwwsubdomain.DocumentRoot: The directory from which Apache will serve the domain files.
To enable the new virtual host file, use the a2ensite helper script which creates a symbolic link from the virtual host file to the sites-enabled directory:
sudo a2ensite domain1.com
The other option is to manually create a symlink as shown below:sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain1.com.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/Once done, test the configuration for any syntax errors with:
sudo apachectl configtestIf there are no errors, you will see the following output:
Syntax OK
Restart the Apache service for the changes to take effect:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Finally, to verify that everything is working as expected, open http://example1.com in your browser.
