Can't get subdomain to work via virtual hosts - Ubuntu

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

<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 www.example.com

ServerAdmin andrewshay@shayconcepts.com
ServerName ftest.shayconcepts.com
DocumentRoot /home/scDev/ftest

<Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /home/scDev/ftest/> AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all Require all granted </Directory>

# 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>

sudo a2ensite xftest.conf

sudo service apache2 reload

sudo service apache2 restart