John,
> Many tips I found by searching the web assume use of the
> /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file but debian doesn't use this by default.
>
> Suggestions would be welcome please.
Basically the best option for three sites "A", "B" and "C" is to use Apache2
standard virtual hosting feature.
1) You get your domain registrar to point the web sites you want all at the
same Apache server. So if you ping A, B or C you get the same machine and IP
address.
2) You then create virtual sites inside the /etc/apache2/sites-available
directory. Here is one I created earlier (file is called i2):
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName i2.iredale.net
ServerAlias i2
ServerAdmin adam.trickett@???
DocumentRoot /srv/www/i2
<Directory /srv/www/i2/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/i2/error.log
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/i2/access.log combined
ServerSignature On
Alias /icons/ "/usr/share/apache2/icons/"
<Directory "/usr/share/apache2/icons">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
What this says create a virtual site called "i2.iredale.net" and sets it's
document root as /srv/www/i2
It's also sets up it's own logging and pulls in the standard Apache icons
library.
Once that is done you need to enable it:
sudo a2ensite i2
Which builds the links of this file into the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
directory, then you restart Apache and you are done:
sudo apache2ctl restart
Or at least that is how I've done it on my Debian boxes in the past.
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair
weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-- Robert Frost
