Apache Virtual Hosts

If you want to host multiple websites or web apps on the same web server, you're probably going to be using virtual hosts. Today, we're looking at the configuration syntax and behavior of virtual hosts in Apache httpd.
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[@Corporatizm]

Oh my god thank you. Every second passing watching your video you clarified real world issues I had with servers due to lack of knowledge of VHosts. Got yourself a new subscriber for sure.

[@Aryan21able]

HE IS A DEMIGOD of teaching and clearing things without repeating things.

[@davidfally5449]

As an entry level System-Engineer: This was the most useful video for figuring out why my VirtualHosts overruled others. I never was told before, that they are loaded in order!

[@udayarpandey3937]

Such a clear voice. Amazing tutorial.

[@Borsting89]

This is the video for you if you want to start learning apache! Well done, Jacob!

[@michalroesler]

I think I'm watching this tutorial for the fifth time this year. So much knowledge and good vibes from you. Thanks.

[@masterwill2183]

You should make a tutorial with Virtual Host with SSL (cerbot), thanks.

[@MikeL9143]

You made sense of virtual hosts for me more in 40mins than the Apache2 Definitive Guide did after several reads over several years - good stuff.

[@shashankmarri1056]

This is one brilliant comprehensive video on Virtual Hosts. I was looking for such knowledge from more than 5 years. This a perfect video. Thank you very very very very much.

[@101redbaron]

Outstanding! Love the errors in the video - some of them I'm calling them out, others I'm scratching my head till you explain what happened. Keep up the good work doode!

[@santonopoulou]

Extremely thorough, well planned, and well presented video. Great work!

[@FranciscoPower]

Finally a video about this topic that explains everything clearly! A long video, but with no wasted time at all, very well done. Thank you!

[@mattlopezdias]

I learnt so much, I've been running servers for years and yet I still learnt so much. Thank you.

[@CakestheCheese]

Another great vid jacob! It's exactly what I needed. I would love to see a tutorial on reverse proxies with Apache2 if you're planning on doing one!

[@ramikilany9279]

yes if could be and how we can convert a http to https other than using Let's Encrypt servers.

[@supernovapr0391]

Thanks mate, You described it so well that I watched you doing it in Linux and then configured myself in windows.

[@ramikilany9279]

Very best ever video talking about Apache web server, keep up the good work.

[@Pyxelles]

Thank you so much for the clear explanation on virtual hosts and the two types. I now have a clear understanding of what virtual hosting is all about. This is what a good tutorial looks like. As a Linux sys admin student this will help me with my project. Keep up the good work. I've subbed!

[@ansh1ta]

Nice video. Everything explained in a simple manner. Very nice

[@Hans-fl2kn]

It was long but left me confident, thanks

[@1000left]

EXCELLENT explanation!!!! Lately I've been using Nginx but even though they have a very similar structure, I feel like Apache2 is much easier!!!! Thank you again!!!

[@richardroach45]

Nice video - looking forward to the SSL version.

[@MillionairesClub2023]

So it looks for domainname/url of server during ssl handshake 1st packet.The field webserver/load balancer check to find which cert to respond with(when it host multiple webserver) is SNI-Subject name identifier.

[@ramirez368]

wow Jacob a lot of information and very specific......very good tutorial man!!!!!

[@pndungu1]

Amazing video. Guilty as charged on copy and pasting staff from you :) it's now very clear. thanks men

[@tilla455]

Great video! Explains everything clearly! Thank you for taking the time to make this video

[@bowenfang5420]

Excellent communication skills

[@rokfam]

So comprehensive. Thank you so much.

[@arnaldoyuri1]

Excellent tutorial Jacob!!! Thanks for sharing.

[@philmennenoh5946]

Thank you for your time.

[@LizzyCarlMain]

thank you for this video. It is very helpful

[@FrankZambaras]

Nice work as always, Jacob! Thanks for the thorough explanation.

[@rico7772007]

I have to say , its a really good explanation of th apache server, thanks for that . Great work. As the previos comment , If you could explain reverse proxy on Apache in your own word ,it wuold be great. Specially ho to setup Next-cloud and this calendar issue on reverse proxy.

[@rakeshpk4991]

Very good explanation. Thank you very much. Expecting more.

[@juliocclub6069]

I should have seen this video first. Many thanks! ! !

[@QBelly]

You're an amazing speaker. And thanks for this.

[@jeffdesouzadev2500]

Holy moley! Thank you so much for making this! This really helped me implement multitenancy at my new job!!

[@marcin6386]

That was solid. Thank you.

[@blmaa6330]

Pretty clarifiying a lot! Will there will be a lot more Apache2 Tutorials? Would be so cool, since never so that good explaining.

[@lovikim1637]

This is the best video about apach2 server configuration. I just want to ask if where to learn the syntax or language in configuring the apache?Thanks!

[@NimaqAlizadeh]

Thank you so much. 🌹🌹🌹

[@greenwavemonster]

wow, thanks alot for this awesome video!!

[@sidthetech7623]

This saved my ass and totally clarified Apache2 VH confs lol... Thanks! You earned a sub!

[@andrew121410]

I’m so glad I’ve found this. Thank you

[@avinamatya3892]

thank you crystal clear

[@HellhoundDieselCrew]

Excellent! Thank you! SUBSCRIBED

[@MarcoAurelio-sv2tk]

Awesome explanation. Thank you for existing

[@kurniaramadhan1174]

Nice video, wait for mail server tutorial 🙂

[@bevedel]

Thank you so much. it helped me to understand the stuff better.

[@brandonlozano8114]

honestly, a really good tutorial thank you very much!!!

[@harrisngwenya4120]

Thanks for this video bro, I am still new to digital ocean and I was wondering if you have done a tutorial on how to point a domain to a digital ocean droplet?

[@midnightmythos]

If this video ever goes away I'll never be able to set up a website again at this point lol

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

I've had videos that I had to keep referencing too, lol.

[@DHClapp]

This was so terrific.

[@francisfernando4605]

Great tutorial. Thank you so much 🙏

[@karthiKeyan-lr9jx]

good job

[@theGrit_music]

Brilliant thank you :)

[@undergroundnews_dk]

Nice guide ;) maybe the next video will include ssl and proxy to maybe a rocket chat or Jetsi-meet anywal well done guide

[@Winedineandrhyme]

what operating system are you using? looks so neat!!

[@omidsoleimani3817]

Amazing tutorial

[@taherr1341]

This is awesome. You are the best.

[@jancatalinnicoara485]

very good tutorial...:) Nerd you are the one . No.1. Thanks a lot...:)

[@MR-vj8dn]

Yes this was helpful. Thank you for sharing. Considering subscribing. Please do not edit out future errors made by you like in this video. I learn from your mistakes too.

[@mohamedyoussef8835]

Awesome tutorial +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thank You

[@zaidnaeem5177]

Well Explained...

[@neonomad673]

hi :) I'm french and this is the 1st tutorial where I actually learned and comprehend sth about virtualhost. So Thank you very much. I have difficulties with ssl certificates. Do you have a tuto?

[@FelipeSGomes]

Thank you. It was very useful.

[@-jamiestorch-4562]

Hi,great channel btw.I have a question if u can help.I have been pentesting various routers by way of changing the lan settings for dns to point to an attacking computer on the network. Do you know if dnschef still works in cooking requests.Im getting the safebrowsing from google and the browsers,chrome and firefox refuse to connect.Ive seen alot of these dns change attacks are taking place.

[@linuxpc4me555]

great video! explains and wipes all my confusions... will you be amending this to include https?

[@guruprasadhmathivanan4040]

Please make a video on how to load balance in tomcat using apache in windows cmd

[@arashghasemi610]

very good tutorial

[@nunyabidness9895]

9:00 15:00 Very helpful! Thanks.

[@hs53]

I would really appreciate if you would make a video on reverse proxy where apache receive traffic on 443 (Secure) and then send http (not secure) on another port and then the seocnd server respond back to apache and apache respond back to the client.

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

I'm pretty sure I've covered this within a Nextcloud or Jitsi video before, it's just a few lines of configuration. I'll keep it in mind in case I ever do more Apache videos.

[@AtifShafiinheritance]

amazing

[@lawalola8542]

i think you explain things quite well, what if you want to display make a single link to display a different page for each user based on the email parameter from the link, that is, i sent a link from my local expose and i want it to display a particular page for those using yahoo and another page for those using gmail and so on? GREAT VIDEO BY THE WAY

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

What you're describing isn't possible via web server configuration alone. Your web server has no way to know what the email address is of someone clicking through a link in their email (certainly no reliable way.) It would be more feasible to script out how you're sending the emails-- you'd have to send a different version of the email to people using each email provider, with each version pointing to the desired page.

[@gullitlevia787]

Great video. Can you please confirm what Linux, version and download site you ran on this demo?

[@herbervonsant5125]

so, theres no need to touch the resolv.conf file an rename your machine "/etc/hosts/"change hostname?

[@franciscog.4210]

Hi Jacob, thank for this video, I have 2 pcs, pc1 has apache and some virtual hosts, when I call all those sites on pc1 works perfect, but pc2 only can see the default site, why the pc2 can't see all the virtual sites? what is the correct url that i must type on pc2?

[@andrepiotrowski5668]

Thanks a lot!

[@asharneyaz7]

This was extremely helpful. The reasoning behind everything was explained beautifully. Could you also do apache with https? I have been trying that but simply could get it working. It works on server locally but when I try to surf the website from the another vm(client vm), the website never shows up on the browser. Ps: I have made custom vmnet for server and client vm for https demonstration. Any help or guidance would be much appreciated.

[@cdeepiitbombay919]

how to tell apache to serve files from some additional folder along with document root

[@rossgeography]

very useful video - very similar to nginx (apache prob the inspiration)

[@rossgeography]

nice on-purpose 'mistakes' mark of a true teacher ;)

[@namename8986]

11:25 no it only works with symlinks

[@alakanandas6358]

Consider this scenario, " You are configuring virtualhost directive both in main configuration file (apache2.conf) and in default virtualhost file (000-default.conf ), and suppose ip:port combination of the request is not matching any of the virtualhost directive (both in default virtualhost file and in the main server configuration. Then what will be request response?

[@MerlasPaul]

Yeah all good and dandy. Can you make a tutorial if we do not have any domains ? with the exact same thing but instead of subdomains it should be ip address but different folders for each path xD ? is it possible ?

[@tejasdevgekar]

thanks a ton

[@davirezendemota]

Nice content dude!

[@diptikulkarni4990]

what if i want to access files from folder which is not there on apache installation drive. Means apache installation is on SSD and ond folder (since huge) is on another 1tb hard disk OS is Ubuntu. Pls guide. I have tried creating alias folder in httpd.config file.

[@RavikumarMittal]

very nice video, please share video on https and ssl

[@wozzyb3804]

Thank you for this video :D WELL Explained ;)

[@vikassinha9515]

Very useful 👍

[@alexdalton5963]

I’m battling with virtual hosts. If I put the document root as /var/www/html/abc (abc the directory) when I type the domain name of abc it’s not working. Must I have the directory as /var/www/abc. If I type the web address then /abc I get to the page but that’s annoying bigger issue is 3 virtual hosts and all mixed till I added / after domain. I’m trying to get 4 application servers working for educational purpose

[@georgeclam1756]

Would love a video on ssl or proxies/load balancing. This video was great

[@shubhamgohokar4833]

Please make lets encrypt on apache 2 using Certbot also do cronjob scheduler to renew certificate

[@ipv4subnet628]

Nice video but I wish you explained a little bit more about how to place everything into a live environment.

[@edgar-mmxxiii]

I did exactly what you said but it is still showing the default page.

[@dolapojohnsonn]

You're the best!!

[@bretonr]

OMG! Thank you sm!!!! :)

[@Ramikelesli]

if I have 1 IP (No domain) and multiple Laravel application ,How we can do it?

[@alaahaider]

Hi and thank you for the tutorial, I followed it but I have a problem. My WordPress site doesn’t work when Requested via https and only work with http. I have check the firewall rules and directory permission but I can’t find what I am doing wrong. Can you please help? Thank you in advance.

[@samolse]

thanks a lot ;)

[@das_evoli]

Wow this is really weird that it completely ignores the ServerName when it finds a virtualhost that fits the ip address