Removing the subdomain as a subdirectory in Apache

Question

I simply trying to make my webpage come up as owncloud.example.com instead of owncloud.example.com/owncloud.

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4, and using OpenSSL. I have tried changing things in my apache.conf and conf-available, and I have changed the root directory to /var/www/ and put the first one in there without any luck.

Answer 1

The typical way to host a new domain or subdomain under Ubuntu/Debian is covered in this tutorial. Here are the basic steps:

1. Create the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/owncloud.example.com.conf with contents based on this template:

   <VirtualHost *>
           ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
           ServerName  owncloud.example.com
           DirectoryIndex index.html
           DocumentRoot /home/www/owncloud.example.com/htdocs/                
   </VirtualHost>
   

2. Put your index.html and other files into /home/www/owncloud.example.com/htdocs/

3. Run the command sudo a2ensite owncloud.example.com to enable the configuration for the site
4. Run the command sudo service apache2 restart to restart the web server