Applying domain name to a subfolder/path

Question

I have a Linode instance of Ubuntu 10.4 using the LAMP stack to host an instance of Magento and a couple other things. I currently have megento set up at:

http://123.459.780.123/magento

When I apply my domain using the Linode tools, I can apply it so that I can access the magento site at:

http://mydomain.com/magento

I would like to host multiple sites, so that I can have /magento, /mysite, /aclientsite all hosted under Apache, but have domains resolve to those paths, so that the root of the individual sites are those, so I can have http://mymagentosite.com, http://mysite.com, and http://aclientsite.com.

I've done this before using tools in GoDaddy, but never using just Ubuntu and ssh access. Can someone explain what I need to do to point domains to folders in Apache? Or at least the correct terms to Google. :)

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with Linode, but all you need to do is point all the domains to server's IP address and leave the remaining for Apache Name-based Virtual Host handle, something like this:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin ...
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/magento
    ServerName magentosite.com
    ServerAlias www.magentosite.com
    ErrorLog logs/magentosite.error_log

    <Directory "/var/www/html/magento">
        AllowOverride all
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin ...
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/aclientsite
    ServerName aclientsite.com
    ServerAlias www.aclientsite.com
    ErrorLog logs/aclientsite.error_log

    <Directory "/var/www/html/aclientsite">
        AllowOverride all
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>