By heaversm
I am using a LAMP stack on Ubuntu 14x.
I want to use my server’s ip address/subfolder as a “root” domain (http://1.2.3.4/[client]), without using fully qualified domains (www.domain.com).
How do I set this up?
I read about using the apache userdir module, which seems like it would work, but I don’t know how to add users.
I also read about setting up virtual hosts, but it seems like that only applies if you are using fully qualified domain names(?)
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You can use IP addresses in virtual hosts too, e.g.:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName 1.2.3.4
</VirtualHost>
For the userdir module:
sudo a2enmod userdir
sudo service apache2 restart
Apache uses the users on your droplet, so to add others:
sudo adduser newuser
… which creates the directory /home/newuser
sudo mkdir /home/newuser/public_html
sudo chmod 0755 /home/newuser/public_html
Apache will now serve files out of /home/newuser/public_html at the address http://1.2.3.4/~newuser.
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