How To Set Up Apache Virtual Host with Subdomain - Digitalocean

Mohamed Barrouh

Jul 11, 2020 • 1 min read

Set Up Apache Virtual Host with Subdomain - Digitalocean

Configure Apache HTTP Server with Domain Name - Digitalocean

First you will need check this article :
How to Add a Subdomain to Your Domain

Create the Virtual Host File

sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-blog.conf

Open the new file in your editor with root privileges

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-blog.conf

Change ServerName and ServerAlias

ServerName blog.barrouh.com
ServerAlias www.blog.barrouh.com

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.blog.barrouh.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =blog.barrouh.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]

Create the Virtual Host File for SSL

sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default-le-ssl.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-blog-le-ssl.conf

Open the new file in your editor with root privileges

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-blog-le-ssl.conf

Change ServerName and ServerAlias

ServerName blog.barrouh.com
ServerAlias www.blog.barrouh.com

Enable the New Virtual Host Files

sudo a2ensite 000-blog.conf
sudo a2ensite 000-blog-le-ssl.conf

Restart Apache to make these changes take effect

sudo systemctl restart apache2

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