By SprX
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.
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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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