Apache

Apache 2.0.49: Host two domains using name-based virtual hosting.

1. Lets assume you have two domain names and one ip address, e.g.:
   
   

   IP	URL
   192.168.1.100	http://www.mobilefish.com
   192.168.1.100	http://www.abcxyz.com

   
   and you want to host both domains on the same web server by using name-based virtual hosting.
   
   To serve your webpages by Apache, first create two DocumentRoots from which you will serve your web pages. As an example, create the following directories:
   
   
   • c:\mobilefish_web (for www.mobilefish.com)
   • c:\abcxyz_web (for www.abcxyz.com)
   
   and put all your webpages in their respective directories.
   
   
2. Add and change the following lines in the
   C:\Tools\Apache Group\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf file, e.g.:
   
   Listen 80
   
   ServerAdmin [email protected]
   
   ServerName www.mobilefish.com:80
   
   DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.shtm index.htm
   
   NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.100
   
   <VirtualHost 192.168.1.100:80>
      ServerAdmin webmaster@mobilefish.com
      DocumentRoot c:/mobilefish_web
      ServerName www.mobilefish.com
      ErrorLog logs/www.mobilefish.com-error_log
      #TransferLog logs/www.mobilefish.com-access_log
      CustomLog "|c:/weblogs/rotatelogs.exe
         c:/weblogs/www.mobilefish.com-access_%y%m%d.log 86400" combined
      <Directory "c:/mobilefish_web">
          Options +Includes
          AddType text/html shtm
          AddOutputFilter Includes shtm
      </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>
   
   <VirtualHost 192.168.1.100:80>
      ServerAdmin webmaster@abcxyz.com
      DocumentRoot c:/abcxyz_web
      ServerName www.abcxyz.com
      ErrorLog logs/www.abcxyz.com-error_log
      #TransferLog logs/www.abcxyz.com-access_log
      CustomLog "|c:/weblogs/rotatelogs.exe
         c:/weblogs/www.abcxyz.com-access_%y%m%d.log 86400" combined
      <Directory "c:/abcxyz_web">
          Options +Includes
          AddType text/html shtm
          AddOutputFilter Includes shtm
      </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>
   
   View the updated httpd.conf file.
   
   

   Directive	Remark
   Listen	The Listen directive is required and listens to only specific IP addresses or ports.
   ServerAdmin	Email address that the server includes in error messages sent to the client.
   DocumentRoot	This directive sets the directory from which httpd will serve files.
   ServerName	Hostname and port that the server uses to identify itself.
   DirectoryIndex	If you use index.shtm or index.htm pages you must change the DirectoryIndex directive.
   NameVirtualHost	The NameVirtualHost directive is a required directive if you want to configure name-based virtual hosts.
   Directory	The Directory directive "<Directory>" is included in this example if you want to use Server Side Includes (SSI).
   CustomLog	The CustomLog directive is added to rotate the logfiles. To make this work you MUST also do the following: Create a directory to store the log files, for example: c:\weblogs Copy the file C:\Tools\Apache Group\Apache2\bin\rotatelogs.exe to c:\weblogs. If you do not do this the log files are NOT created.
   TransferLog (commented out)	In this example the TransferLog directive is commented out, the CustomLog directive is used instead. If you do not want to rotate the log files comment out CustomLog and uncomment TransferLog.

   
   
   
3. Verify if the file httpd.conf is correctly modified:
   
   C:\Tools\Apache Group\Apache2\bin\apache -t
   
   You should see the following:
   
   Syntax OK
   
   
   
   
   
4. After httpd.conf is changed, always restart Apache.
   
   
5. If you do not have a DNS server, you can modify file:
   c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
   Add the following lines:
   
   192.168.1.100     www.mobilefish.com
   192.168.1.100     www.abcxyz.com
   
   And disable Proxyserver in IE browser setting:
   Extra | Internet-options | Connections | LAN-settings |
   
   
6. Now you can access both websites by their domainname, i.e.:
   http://www.mobilefish.com
   http://www.abcxyz.com