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point new domain to different directory on same droplet in centos 7 x64 using virtualhost

Posted on June 18, 2015

important info: the domain names maindoamin.com and otherdomain.com are for information only, i am working on a real domain name, but for privacy i have used these two domain names here to explain my issue…

i am following this article: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-centos-7

i had just bought a droplet which has centos 7 x64 and httpd, php, mysql installed using articles and tutorials at digitalocean and everything is working perfect.

but i want to use more than one domain in my single droplet, which has above stated config, for that i had created a mysite.conf at /etc/httpd/conf.d with below lines of code::

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.maindomain.com
    ServerAlias maindomain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
    ErrorLog /var/www/html/error.log
    CustomLog /var/www/html/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.otherdomain.com
    ServerAlias otherdomain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/otherdomain.com
    ErrorLog /var/www/html/otherdomain.com/error.log
    CustomLog /var/www/html/otherdomain.com/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>

but i getting below when i am restarting httpd service using putty :::

[root@muhammad ~]# sudo service httpd restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart  httpd.service
Job for httpd.service failed. See 'systemctl status httpd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

but when i keep only one virtual host ie:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.otherdomain.com
    ServerAlias otherdomain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/otherdomain.com
    ErrorLog /var/www/html/otherdomain.com/error.log
    CustomLog /var/www/html/otherdomain.com/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>

now httpd restart works… and when i navigate to www.otherdomain.com using web browser, my index file get displayed which i had at my otherdomain.com folder but my maindomain.com also uses the index.html file , but the index.html file is at otherdomain.com folder at /var/www/html/otherdomain.com/index.html, this i understand why it doing this,

but my question is how can i setup it properly so that my maindomain.com uses /var/www/html/ and otherdomain.com uses /var/www/html/otherdomain.com/ , please help thanks in advance…

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