Question
How do icorrectly setup my first virtual host correctly
- Posted February 10, 2017
- LAMP StackUbuntu 16.04
Hello, Firstly please excuse my ‘Noobiness’ but im new to VPS …
I am having trouble displaying my first virtual host web content after following the DO tutorial here : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04
I have completed the LAMP installation correctly step by step and all is working ok but when i come to displaying the test page in the virtual host i get the standard Chrome message :
This site can’t be reached ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED
I restarted my instance properly and waited 2 days for the propagation period (just in case) but i still get the error message. However when i go to the url of my digital Ocean Hostname it shows the example ‘success’ message in my virtual host file .html file.
Am i correct in thinking i need to change the name servers of the domain name for my virtual host site to the name servers of my Droplet/Hostname - currently they are pointing to Digital Oceans nameservers (primary, secondary and tertiary) - but they should point to those that i set up in my Digital Ocean control panel, right? which would be my Digital Ocean Hostname for NS records first, second and third, yes?
Also if this works then can i still show my main website on main hostname and a second site on my virtual host? or should i forget about virtual hosts and just have a separate server instance/droplet for each site i intend to build.
Thank you.
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@LoneCoder
To really diagnose the issue further I’d need to see your VirtualHost blocks for each of your domains and all the records that you have set for your DNS. Without those two things, it’s hard to really guess at what could potentially be wrong as that’s all I’d be doing, guessing :-).
@LoneCoder
Apache allows you to host multiple sites and this can be done on a single Droplet, you just need to make sure you’re VirtualHost blocks are properly setup – the same for directories.
For VirtualHost setup, I’d take a closer look at this guide as it applies specifically to setting them up properly. You’d then mimic the contents of the guide and chance site-specific details (i.e. domain, paths, etc).
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04#step-four-%14-create-new-virtual-host-files
As for DNS, you’ll need to setup your domain to use:
Then you need to setup an A and CNAME entry for your domain. The A entry points your domain to the IP of your droplet and the CNAME points www to your domain.
For example: