apache addon domain

furqan_sindhu · 10-03-2006, 07:41 AM

i m running apache on my local computer. ihave made it a server. is there soem way that i can add addon domains on my local computer ???

Wim Sturkenboom · 10-03-2006, 08:17 AM

How do you mean, addon domains. You might be talking about virtual hosts. There are two ways, name based virtial hosts and ip based virtual hosts. If you don't use https (not likely at home), you can use name based virtual hosts. look up the below section in httpd.conf and uncomment it (don't uncomment the comments).

Code:

#NameVirtualHost *:80

#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
#<VirtualHost *:80>
#    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
#    DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
#    ServerName dummy-host.example.com
#    ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
#    CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>

Replace the red line with something that makes sense like

Code:

<VirtualHost website1:80>

Further you need to change the documentroot and the servername.
You can now copy the part from the red line onwards and change some data that applies to the second website. For this second part, change the red line to

Code:

<VirtualHost website2:80>

You also need a different documentroot and servername.

OK, next step is that the connecting computers can resolve the names website1 and website2. Easiest is probably to add them to the file /etc/hosts. They may all refer to the same ip-address.
Below an example if you only need to access them from your local PC

Code:

127.0.0.1               localhost
127.0.0.1               website1
127.0.0.1               website2

You should now be able access the websites in a browser by using http://website1 and http://website2

Haven't tested this, so I hope it's correct

PS IP based is similar, but you need to setup multiple IP addresses for your server and you should not disable the first line in the first code block in this post.
Further you need to specify IP addresses instead of names.

furqan_sindhu · 10-03-2006, 12:58 PM

Code:

<VirtualHost website1>
#    ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
    DocumentRoot /www/docs/mySite
#    ServerName 8887.localhost
#    ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
#    CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

this is the configuration of my http.conf now. but i cant find this /etc/hosts thingi. where is this ???
at least without this /etc/hosts part, http://website1 is not working !!!!

Wim Sturkenboom · 10-03-2006, 10:04 PM

It's a file on your system (file hosts in directory /etc). Any Linux/Unix system has one. If you're running this on Windows, just locate the file hosts, it is somewhere under the windows directory.

furqan_sindhu · 10-04-2006, 09:17 AM

well niceeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!

thanks man !

i actually needed to install a website that required all this. that installed successfulyy. but now when i opens the web site main page by address http://website1 , it gives me the error that

Code:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server.
Apache/2.0.55 (Win32) DAV/2 PHP/5.1.1 Server at website1 Port 80

can u pls tell whats the wrong ?

Wim Sturkenboom · 10-04-2006, 10:23 PM

Not sure, might be a file-permission issue.

furqan_sindhu · 10-05-2006, 03:26 PM

while investigating this issue of file permission, i have come across a strange thing.

when i comment the "rewriteengine on" statement in .htaccess, website works properly, but on uncommenting, this file permission error appears.
well that was not the strange part. strange part is that, when i uncomment this "rewriteengine on" statement and deletes all rest of the contents of .htaccess file, still the same file permission error appears. why is that ???

any idea ??

Wim Sturkenboom · 10-05-2006, 11:32 PM

Sorry, don't know. Maybe someone else can help out here.