How do I point another domain to a sub-folder?

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I tried multiple tutorials online but up to no avail. I want to point my new domain (eg newdomain.com) to a folder in /var/www/html/new/.

I bought the domain off namecheap.com and have set the custom DNS to dns1-3.digitalocean.com. Next, I made the DNS changes in the Networking area in the control panel. https://i.imgur.com/9tbsT4C.png

Afterwards, I created a Apache’s VirtualHost in /etc/apacheites-available

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mew
    ServerAlias   newdomain.com
    ServerName newdomain.com
 
    	<Directory /var/www/html/new>
        	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        	AllowOverride all
        	Order allow,deny
        	allow from all
        	Require all granted
	</Directory>
 	
	<Proxy *>
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Proxy>

	ProxyPass / http://IP-ADDRESS/new/ Keepalive=On
	ProxyPassReverse / http://IP-ADDRESS/new/
	ProxyPreserveHost On

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

After restarting Apache2, my primary + new domain doesn’t seem to be loading at all.

Jonathan Tittle · Answer

@SprX

You don’t need the ProxyPass configuration unless you’re passing the request over to an address that uses a port other than 80/443. For example, if you were running a NodeJS app that was running on a port such as 2365, and you wanted it to respond on a port 80 (i.e. without having to attach a port to the URL), then you would use ProxyPass.

For a standard domain setup, you really only need

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /path/to/domain01.com
    ServerName domain01.com
    ServerAlias www.domain01.com

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    <Directory /path/to/domain01.com>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

So if that’s your base and you want domain02.com to point to /new in the same directory as your existing domain, you’d setup another server block and use something such as:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /path/to/domain01.com/new
    ServerName domain02.com
    ServerAlias www.domain02.com

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    <Directory /path/to/domain01.com/new>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

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