Setting Virtual Host on Linux (Ubunut 10.04 -Lucid Lynx)

Here I am going to describe very briefly how to set up virtual host on apache2 on Ubuntu 10.04
Step 1: Create a your own folder lets call it 'myproject'. Create a simple html file inside this folder

Step 2: Go inside 'myproject' and create a file 'index.html' and put following code in this file

‹ html ›
‹ body ›
It works !!
‹/body ›
‹/htm ›

commands:

> mkdir myproject
> cp -r myproject /usr/share/doc/

>sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/myproject /var/ww/myproject

Now at this point of time you have created a test to check if your virtual host setting is working fine or not

Step 3: creating virtual host

>sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

Now add following lines in this file

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‹VirtualHost *:80›

ServerAdmin xyz@gmail.com

DocumentRoot "/var/www/myproject/"

ServerName myproject

‹/VirtualHost ›

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Step 3: >sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Step 4: >sudo vi /etc/hosts

and add following lines in this file

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127.0.0.1 myproject

yourIP myproject

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Step 5: Set no proxy for 'myproject'

Step 6: Open http://myproject

If any php script present is myproject folder is not working add following line in virtual host setting file

LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so

So your final Virtual host setting will look like as follows

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‹VirtualHost *:80›

ServerAdmin xyz@gmail.com

DocumentRoot "/var/www/myproject/"

ServerName myproject

LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so

‹ /VirtualHost ›

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For any doubt feel free to ask !!