Web Application Deployment - Apache httpd

Web Application Deployment module A604

Apache httpd - virtual hosts

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module A604. This topic is presented on public courses Deploying Apache and Tomcat, Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix

Background

How to use Apache httpd to host more than one web site on a single server. With just one copy of httpd, you can serve hundreds of sites!

Related technical and longer articles

Multiple domains on a single web server

Articles and tips on this subject		updated
4404	Which (virtual) host was visited? Tuning Apache log files, and Python analysis We host a number of domains on our main server, and in order to avoid fragmentation of log files, we keep a sinle composite log. Rather than use a standard logfile format henceforth, I've changed the second field to carry the virtual host name accessed for the request, as that was missing up until this ...	2015-01-23
3568	Telling which ServerAlias your visitor used - useful during merging domains Someone tells you a website to visit - "go to wellhousemanor.co.uk" they say. And you'll naturally add "www." in front of it, calling up www.wellhousemanor.co.uk rather than wellhousemanor.co.uk ... or perhaps you won't. Web servers are normally set up by default to respond to a single specific host ...	2012-01-07
3132	Virtual Hosting with Apache http server - an overall scheme, and avoiding common pitfalls During many of our courses, I write code snippet examples and add them to our website so that the delegates can refer back to them later - and they also form an ongoing resource for others who happen to be looking for examples. But on our Linux Web Server (LAMP) courses, there's far less original code ...	2011-01-14
1896	Virtual Hosts and Virtual Servers Do you want to use a single computer to host many different web sites? There are no less than four quite common ways of doing this - each of which has its advantages and disadvantages. At the top left of my diagram, you have virtual hosting. In this arrangement, all the domains hosted on a single ...	2008-11-24
1687	Virtual Hosting on Apache httpd - a primer example A single web server computer, running a single Apache httpd daemon, can serve many domains through virtual hosting - usually "named virtual hosting" which allows a single IP address to be used for all the different domains. Here is how it works ... • you set up all your defaults in the main httpd.conf ...	2008-06-25
690	Adding Virtual Hosts If you're running your own server and want to look after multiple domains, you can easily do so using Apache httpd's Virtual Hosting. It's as easy as 1-2-3-4 ... 1. Create new host names in your DNS 2. Create home directories and a test index.html 3. Set up virtual hosts in httpd.conf (redhat) or vhosts.xxxx.conf ...	2006-06-05

Examples from our training material

vh	Virtual hosts - a simple structure
vhost.snowdrop.conf	Virtual host sample - snowflake, snowdrop and raindrop
vhost_withnote	Virtual Hosting - sample template for many-domain system
vhosts_proxy.conf	Virtual Hosting Example with forwarding to Tomcat

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from [here].

Topics covered in this module

Virtual Hosts
Setting up so the browser can see multiple hosts
Configuring virtual hosts

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