Hey all, I'm new to working with webservers manually and I am trying to setup a subdomain via apache's virtual hosts but I can't get it to work. This is the tutorial I followed https://www.digitalo...buntu-12-04-lts Here is some initial info: I have my website running just fine with the main domain http://shayConcepts.com and it's running from /home/scDev/public_html I'm trying to create a test sub domain, ftest.shayconcepts.com. Located at /home/scDev/ftest My domain is not through digital ocean And here's exactly what I did sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /home/scDev/ftest (I also tried sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/scDev/ftest sudo chmod -R 755 /home/scDev/ftest created an index.html in ftest cd /etc/apache2/sites-available sudo cp ./default.conf ./xftest.conf Here's the contents of xftest.conf # 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 www.example.com ServerAdmin andrewshay@shayconcepts.com ServerName ftest.shayconcepts.com DocumentRoot /home/scDev/ftest Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all Require all granted # 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 sudo a2ensite xftest.conf sudo service apache2 reload sudo service apache2 restart