Thank you very much for your easy instructions on installing Apache2 server. it still proves that it takes a woman to get things right. I just switched over from centos 7 to the ubuntu 20.04 server due to vestacp problems and no kind of support for why my add on domains would not work but yet the main admin one would. still baffels me, but i’m a glutten for punishment so thought i would try it out on ubuntu 20.04. any way thanks for the excellent info and help the enternet needs more like you.

Hello!

Thanks for sharing this information. Here is a question

I have a website(example.com) already running in /var/www/html can i add another website (newdomain.com) by creating directory /var/www/newdomain.com and use it. Without changing the location of example.com as you know it will take time to transfer from /var/www/html to /var/www/example.com

Yes, i’m using Apache Web Server on Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) x64

Please reply me ASAP

Now it’s easy, you can use easy-apache to set up everything for you, all you have to do is copy-paste below lines into your terminal, and enter your domain name when asked, it will also install SSL if you want

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:realpvn/easy-apache
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install easy-apache

#to install Apache server
easy-apache -a

#to install SSL
easy-apache -s

#full setup, Apache and SSL
easy-apache -f

A very nice piece of Information. Nicely written. Thanks a lot. I was wondering for basic apache server setup. I will remember your name as my teacher. GBY.

how do I make my site visible to any other computer?

Issue: Error AH00558: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name

Solution: Add a line containing ServerName 127.0.0.1 to the end of the file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Restart apache2

sudo systemctl restart apache2

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Issue: can access the website via IP but not Domain Solution:

sudo nano /etc/hosts

add this code:

127.0.0.1 www.YOURDOMAIN.com

Restart apache2

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Worked great Thank you for the walkthrough!!!

Do we need to add /public_html to the directory if we want to add more than one virtual host site? If I add one using the above method it works fine but if I add a second one the second one won’t show up.

Thanks Erin!

Just a comment, that could help people. When following your tutorial after doing the configtest of apache I found ERROR AH00558. Since I was starting from scratch from a Desktop 20.04 Ubuntu distribution, I assume that it will happen to anybody doing the same thing.

The fix is easy, just add to your tutorial that if they find this error all they need to do is to add this line to their /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file using sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, going to the end of the file and adding it, then <Ctrl>S, followed by <Ctrl>X

vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

ServerName 127.0.0.1

This is one of the best-written tutorials I’ve ever followed. Thanks, Erin!