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Create a New Apache Site

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Create a New Apache Site

A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a New Site in Apache2

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Muhammad Usama
Mar 15, 2023

Install Apache: If you haven't already done so, install Apache using the following command

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2

Create a new directory for your site under the /var/www directory. For example, if you want to create a site called example.com, you can create a directory called /var/www/example.com

sudo mkdir /var/www/example.com
#Create an index.html file inside the new directory with the following command and the below contnet
sudo vim /var/www/example.com/index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Hello World!</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Hello World!</h1>
    <p>This is a test page.</p>
</body>
</html>

Set the correct file permissions for the new directory and file

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/example.com
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/example.com

Create a new virtual host configuration file for your site

sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com.conf

Inside the file, type the following configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Enable the new virtual host configuration and restart Apache

sudo a2ensite example.com.conf
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Finally, add an entry to your /etc/hosts file to map the domain name (example.com) to the IP address of your local machine,

# on the machine you have browser access ,
sudo vim /etc/hosts
# add the below line by replacing with your local server IP address
your-IP example.com www.example.com

Note: If you have a real server and Domain name you don't need this, you just have to Add a DNS record to your domain name provider

Finally, Test the Application from your Browser

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