Domain Configuration

May 25, 2014 2.3k views
diego.dacal
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diego.dacal
Hi, I have a droplet in DigitalOcean and am having issues to configure a domain a bought on it. So, I have a LAMP on Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my droplet and have a couple of folders in there with a couple of different websites. I also bought a domain through registro.br (a brasilian domain name provider) and Im going to buy another domain on goDaddy. I would like to point each of these domain to a subfolder in my droplet, for example: domain1.com.br -> myIPonDO/subfolder1 domain2.com -> myIPonDO/subfolder2 Ive tried a couple of things but had no success, not even to point my domain directly to my IP. :( Any idead of how to do it? Thanks a lot. Diego Dacal.
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kamaln7 MOD May 26, 2014
First, you need to update your DNS records to point the domain to your droplet: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-a-host-name-with-digitalocean.

Then, you need to add a virtualhost so Apache knows what directory to serve each domain from: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts.
How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
by Etel Sverdlov
This tutorial shows you how to set up a new directory, how to grant the correct permissions, how to add content to a new page, how to turn on virtual hosting, and how to, if needed, set up local hosts. Virtual Hosts are used to run more than one domain off of a single IP address and allows you to run multiple sites off of a single DigitalOcean droplet. This tutorial describes how to set up virtual hosts with Apache.
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