Manually Configuring Virtual Subhosts

In order to manually configure a Virtual Subhost, connect to your Virtual Private Server via SSH, su to root, and do the following:

1. Run either vadduser to create the primary user's account, or run vedituser to grant the user web and FTP permissions. This will create a www directory under their username. The www directory will contain both a cgi-bin directory and a logs directory.
2. For each Virtual Subhost you configure on your Virtual Private Server you will need to create a new directory for the Virtual Subhost domain files in the specified User's www directory.
   
   # mkdir -p ~/home/USERNAME/www/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME
   
   Then change the ownership of the new directories:
   
   # chown -R USERNAME:www /home/USERNAME/www
3. Open up your web server configuration file (/www/conf/httpd.conf) and add the following lines in the <VirtualHost> section of the file to ensure compatibility with Microsoft FrontPage. The <VirtualHost> section is found at the bottom of the file.

   <VirtualHost YOUR.IP.ADD.RESS:80>
       User           USERNAME
       Group          USERNAME
       ServerName     SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME
       ServerAlias    WWW.SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME
       ServerAdmin    webmaster@SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME
       DocumentRoot   /home/USERNAME/www/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME
       ScriptAlias    /cgi-bin/ "/home/USERNAME/www/cgi-bin/"
       <Directory /home/USERNAME/www/cgi-bin>
         AllowOverride None
         Options ExecCGI
         Order allow,deny
         Allow from all
       </Directory>
       CustomLog      /home/USERNAME/www/logs/access_log combined
       ErrorLog       /home/USERNAME/www/logs/error_log
   </VirtualHost>
   

   NOTE: If you want this Virtual Host SSL enabled, you will need to add the following entry as well: <VirtualHost YOUR.IP.ADD.RESS:443> SSLEnable User USERNAME Group USERNAME ServerName SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME ServerAlias WWW.SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME ServerAdmin webmaster@SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME DocumentRoot /home/USERNAME/www/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/USERNAME/www/cgi-bin/" <Directory /home/USERNAME/www/cgi-bin> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> CustomLog /home/USERNAME/www/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /home/USERNAME/www/logs/error_log </VirtualHost>

   Substitute the VPS IP address in place of YOUR.IP.ADD.RESS above.
   
   You must substitute the Virtual Subhost domain name in place of SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME above.

NOTE: If the specified User will be responsible for more than one Virtual Host, you may want to create separate virtual host logs, rather than combined logs. CustomLog /home/USERNAME/www/logs/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME-access_log combined ErrorLog /home/USERNAME/www/logs/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME-error_log



4. For more details about Virtual Subhosts and e-mail, see the following.
   • The Virtusertable - Providing E-Mail for Virtual Subhosts

Please note: the information on this page applies to ITS web hosting plans. It may or may not apply to other environments. If you are looking for a feature described here, or better support from your hosting provider, please consider hosting your site with ITS!

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