Apache2 – Setting Up a Virtual Host

Apache2virtualhost

I currently have all my websites as directories under /var/www. I would like to set up a virtual host http://foo/ that points to the /var/www/foo/foo directory (and still keep the default localhost behavior).

I added the following file, foo, to /etc/apache2/sites-available/:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName foo
    DocumentRoot /var/www/foo/foo

    # Other directives here
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/foo/foo>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I then ran the following commands:

sudo a2ensite foo
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

But when I go to http://foo/ it still returns an ISP search page.

Best Answer

You need to edit your /etc/hosts file so that http://foo resolves to 127.0.0.1.

Edit the file /etc/hosts (with sudo/root) and add the following line:

127.0.0.1 foo
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