{"id":804,"date":"2014-10-04T07:25:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T05:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinglauser.ch\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2014-10-02T23:28:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T21:28:30","slug":"supercharge-your-lamp-stack-part-2-create-dynamic-virtual-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinglauser.ch\/blog\/2014\/10\/04\/supercharge-your-lamp-stack-part-2-create-dynamic-virtual-hosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercharge your LAMP Stack Part 2: Create dynamic virtual hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you ever wonder if there was a other way to organise your web projects than creating subfolders in your normal htdocs folder and using the with http:\/\/localhost\/project1<\/a>, you’ve come to the right place.<\/p>\n

In this post I’ll show you how you can create dynamic virtual hosts without restarting Apache or adding anything to the Apache VirtualHost configuration.<\/p>\n

So let’s get started:<\/p>\n

If you’ve followed the previous tutorial<\/a>\u00a0you should already have a working lamp setup. However if you don’t it’s really easy to set it up:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^<\/pre>\n
When the installation is finished you should be asked for a password for the root mysql server. After you’ve specified your password you should be able to open http:\/\/localhost\/ in you browser and see the “It Works!” message. (On Ubuntu 14.04 it’s a quiet longer page with the title “Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page”)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
First we have to configure Apache to use our user to run the web server, else we will run into permission problems.<\/p>\n
To do this open the file \/etc\/apache2\/env.conf and change the username and group to your username and primary group (This should be the same as your username).
\nAfter this it’s quite easy, as I’ve already created a script which does everything for you.<\/p>\n
Just download the script from here <\/a>and run it with root rights ‘sudo vhost.sh example.dev’. This will add my vhost config and add a new host named example.dev<\/p>\n