By welldo
Hey.
I’m aware that this question has some detailed answers on many platforms including Digital Ocean Community, but the thing is, as far as I come along they are a bit outdated currently (Please feel free to correct me as I would much appreciate it). There are 3 suggestions right now in the “Do any of these answer your question?” section and the closest date is from 4 years ago.
So, here’s my exact details about my situation;
I deployed a Ubuntu 18.04 droplet, installed Apache2 for web server, then installed MySQL and PHP. So it’s a LAMP stack.
I’ve used these following pages and they were great. Thanks to all of their authors.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-18-04
I need to learn managing multiple wordpress sites in this droplet, each will have their own domains. Digital Ocean has a Wordpress tutorial in here (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lamp-on-ubuntu-18-04) which I also will follow along but since it doesn’t cover creating multiple sites, here’s my attempt to ask for resource advice.
Thank you and wish you all a great day.
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Hello,
You can host multiple websites on one droplet by adding multiple Apache Virtual Hosts.
Here’s a step by step article on how to do that:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04
Let me know if you have any questions.
Regards, Bobby
Running multiple websites on a single droplet (or server) is a common scenario, especially when you’re trying to optimize resources. You can achieve this by setting up Virtual Hosts in Apache or Server Blocks in Nginx. Here’s a guide on how to do this:
Prerequisites:
- A droplet/server with a Linux distribution (e.g., Ubuntu, CentOS).
- A web server installed (Apache or Nginx).
- Domain names for each website.
- Basic understanding of SSH and server administration.
Setting Up Multiple Websites with Apache
1. Install Apache (if not already installed)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
Configure Virtual Hosts
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Apache uses Virtual Hosts to manage multiple websites on a single server. Each website will have its own Virtual Host file.
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Create a directory for each website:
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/yourdomain1.com/public_html
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/yourdomain2.com/public_html
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Replace
yourdomain1.comandyourdomain2.comwith your actual domain names. -
Set Permissions:
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/yourdomain1.com/public_html
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/yourdomain2.com/public_html
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www
Create Virtual Host Configuration Files:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourdomain1.com.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain1.com
ServerName yourdomain1.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/yourdomain1.com/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/yourdomain1.com-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/yourdomain1.com-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Repeat the process for the second domain
Enable the Virtual Hosts:
sudo a2ensite yourdomain1.com.conf
sudo a2ensite yourdomain2.com.conf
sudo systemctl restart apache2
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