How to create a subdomain in Apache?

Posted on December 1, 2013

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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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.

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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