29.5. Creating a New Virtual Host
If you want to host multiple websites on your system, then you will need to create an Apache virtual host for each one. Before you can add a site, its address must first be registered in the DNS, either on a DNS server on your system or on another host. If the site's files are to be owned by a different UNIX user than the one who owns the document root directory, then he must be created first as well.
The entire process for adding a virtual server is:
1. | Decide on a hostname that will be used in the URL for the new website, such as www.example.com. |
2. | Decide if your new site is going to be IP-based, or name-based. A name-based site will work fine with all except for old browsers and so is, by far, the best choice ... |
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