Address-Based Virtual Hosts

After you’ve configured your Linux machine with multiple IP addresses, setting up Apache to serve them as different websites is simple. You need only put a VirtualHost directive in your apache2.conf file for each of the addresses you want to make an independent website:

<VirtualHost 212.85.67.67>ServerName gnulix.orgDocumentRoot /home/virtual/gnulix/public_htmlTransferLog /home/virtual/gnulix/logs/access_logErrorLog /home/virtual/gnulix/logs/error_log</VirtualHost>

Use the IP address, rather than the hostname, in the VirtualHost tag.

You can specify any configuration directives within the <VirtualHost> tags. For example, you might want to set AllowOverrides directives differently for virtual hosts than you do for your ...

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