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How to create a subdomain in Apache?

Posted December 1, 2013 135k views
So I just created my Ubuntu server and everything is working fine. I set up the virtual host on my Apache following this tutorial (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts). My question is: how can I create a subdomain? I want that when you go to subdomain.mydomain.com Apache goes to /var/www/subdomain/public_html (or something like that...).
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pablo December 2, 2013
Simply follow the steps in the article you cited, but replace example.com with subdomain.example.com (but do not add the ServerAlias directive).
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romeiroe January 10, 2014
why not add a server alias?
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dorivalac August 13, 2014

First of all:

1- Configure the BIN9 at /etc/bind

If yout domain is www.domain.com, go to
/etc/bind/db.domain.com
and add the subdomain name

subdomainname IN A 1.1.1.1. <= Repalce with IP

2- Go to Apache2 at /etc/apache2
Look for /etca/apache2/sitesavailable

Add new file named as: subdomainname.domainname.com
and link it in apache2/sitesenabled

examble:

<VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/domainname
    ServerName subdomainname.domainname.com

    <Directory /var/www/domainname/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>


    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error-logfile.log
    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access-logfile.log combined

</VirtualHost>

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  • RaptorK July 20, 2018

    This contains various problems:

    1. Binding is not needed at all
    2. The Apache available site path is incorrect, it should be /etc/apache2/sites-available
    3. You should use the following command to enable an Apache site (instead of making symlink manually): sudo a2ensite {config filename}
    4. You should reload/restart Apache service afterwards.
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medya.gh March 23, 2015

@dorivalac did you mean private ip or public ip ?

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denchuch December 3, 2016

Hello Support,

We don’t have bind server in our server. How can we configure the DNS Server to poin that CNAME.

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