By Kfir Ben-Ami
Hello. I’m trying to add a subdomain to my website which is running on ubuntu 14.04
I got a domain: example.com and I want to add a subdomain: recipes.example.com.
I have the following folders:
/var/www/example.com and /var/www/recipes.example.com. Up until now I had the main domain folder only and everything worked just as expected.
In /etc/apache2/sites-available I got my example.com.conf as well as recipes.example.com.conf
here is my recipes.example.com.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me@example.com
#referring the user to the recipes application
DocumentRoot /var/www/recipes.example.com/public
<Directory /var/www/recipes.example.com/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# Uncomment this directive is you want to see apache2's
# default start page (in /apache2-default) when you go to /
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
I’ve added a CNAME entry for my domain:
CNAME: name: recipes, host: @
However, up at this point, when I access recipes.example.com I get see my actual website, which means that apache has loaded the main website’s folder instead of the subdomain folder.
What am I doing wrong?
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It looks like your virtualhost configuration is missing a ServerName. In name based virtual hosting this field is key and is what apache uses to decide which site to display. You’ll want to add the following line:
ServerName recipes.example.com
To the main section of this configuration right before or after your ServerAdmin directive.
I currently have this in my vhost but I’m getting the same issue where this subdomain is going to the root but the domain is going to the appropriate place via it’s own vhost… any idea what I’m doing incorrectly?
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName beta.example.com
ServerAlias www.beta.examplecom
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/example.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
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