Using Virtual Hosting on Apache

Apache have a concept of Virtual Hosts which allows you to configure multiple websites on a single IP Address using multiple hostnames or ports. If you haven’t already done it, install Apache on your Ubuntu instance:

apt-get install apache2

Create a new conf file in /etc/apache2/sites-available or use an existing one. Add the ports for different site directories:

<VirtualHost *:11235>
        DocumentRoot /var/www/w1

        <Directory /var/www/w1>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:11236>
        DocumentRoot /var/www/w2

        <Directory /var/www/w2>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

and then set Apache tolisten on the ports in the /etc/apache2/ports.conf file:

Listen 11235
Listen 11236

Restart the Apache service. You should now be able to browse both ports using the same ip address. If your ip was 111.111.111.111 then w1 directory on 111.111.111.111:11235 and 111.111.111.111:11236.

If your domain is pointing to a IP, you can use different hostnames without making change to DNS. If you domain was mydomain.com, you could instead add new virtual host names with:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName w1.mydomain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/w1

   <Directory /var/www/w1>
    Options +Includes -Indexes +FollowSymLinks 
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
   </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName w2.mydomain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/w2

   <Directory /var/www/w2>
    Options +Includes -Indexes +FollowSymLinks 
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
   </Directory>

</VirtualHost>