Adding a Virtual Host on Ubuntu

• SSH into your server/instance
• cd to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
• run the following command touch [somesite].com.conf
• The previous command will create a new conf file.
• I like to use vim for editing files via ssh, you can use what you want but for this short tutorial we’ll use vim.
• Run the following command vim [somesite].com.conf
• Add the following code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
        # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
        # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
        # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
        # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
        # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
        # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
        ServerName [somesite].com
        ServerAlias www.[somesite].com

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/[path_to_site_public_access]

        # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
        # error, crit, alert, emerg.
        # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
        # modules, e.g.
        #LogLevel info ssl:warn

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
        # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
        # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
        # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
        # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
        #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>

• Next hit esc then type :x which will save the file.
• Finally restart the server with the following command sudo systemctl restart apache2 and go to somesite.com to make sure it works!