v.02

Move the existing friendica installation to a new directory folder in /var/www/:

rootname@VPShosting:~# mkdir /var/www/domainorg/
rootname@VPShosting:~# cp -R /var/www/html/ /var/www/domainorg/
rootname@VPShosting:~# ls -l /var/www/
rootname@VPShosting:~# ls -l /var/www/domainorg/
rootname@VPShosting:~# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/domainorg/
rootname@VPShosting:~# chown root:root /var/www/domainorg/

Create a standard http and https domain registry file on the VPS server in:
/etc/apache2/sites-available/

The original settings of the server are defined in the folder /etc/apache2/sites-available/ by the files 000-default.conf and for the SSL settings in 000-default-le-ssl.conf.

<VirtualHost *:80>
	# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
	# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
	# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
	# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
	# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
	# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
	# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
	# ServerName domain.org
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot /var/www/html
	# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
	# error, crit, alert, emerg.
	# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
	# modules, e.g.
	#LogLevel info ssl:warn
	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
	# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
	# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
	# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
	# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
	# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
	#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =domain.org
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
	# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
	# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
	# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
	# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
	# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
	# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
	# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
	# ServerName domain.org
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot /var/www/html
<Directory /var/www/html>
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>
	# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
	# error, crit, alert, emerg.
	# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
	# modules, e.g.
	#LogLevel info ssl:warn
	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
	# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
	# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
	# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
	# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
	# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
	#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
ServerName domain.org
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.org/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.org/privkey.pem
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

rootname@VPShosting:~# nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain.org.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
	# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
	# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
	# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
	# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
	# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
	# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
	# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
	# ServerName domain.org
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot /var/www/doamainorg
	# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
	# error, crit, alert, emerg.
	# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
	# modules, e.g.
	#LogLevel info ssl:warn
	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
	# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
	# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
	# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
	# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
	# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
	#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =domain.org
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

rootname@VPShosting:~# nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain.org-le-ssl

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
	# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
	# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
	# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
	# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
	# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
	# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
	# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
	# ServerName domain.org
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot /var/www/domainorg
<Directory /var/www/html>
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>
	# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
	# error, crit, alert, emerg.
	# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
	# modules, e.g.
	#LogLevel info ssl:warn
	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
	# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
	# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
	# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
	# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
	# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
	#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
ServerName domain.org
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.org/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.org/privkey.pem
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

Check domain IP redirect settings by the domain registry provider!
Those settings should be fine as they were set and working by the inicial setup.

rootname@VPShosting:~# a2ensite domain.org
rootname@VPShosting:~# a2ensite domain.org-le-ssl.conf
rootname@VPShosting:~# a2dissite 000-default.conf
rootname@VPShosting:~# a2dissite 000-default-le-ssl.conf
rootname@VPShosting:~# systemctl restart apache2

Reloading the site should take a while longer than nomal, indicating that new inicial background tasks are happening.

rootname@VPShosting:~# mv /var/www/html/index.php /var/www/html/index_old.php
rootname@VPShosting:~# mv /var/www/html/ /var/www/html_old/
rootname@VPShosting:~# mkdir /var/www/html/
rootname@VPShosting:~# nano /var/www/html/index.html

<html>
<title>name-based virtual hosting setup</title>
<h1>Welcome to the /html/ index.html fall back file.</h1>
<p>This is a test file for a name-based virtual hosting setup</p>
</html>

v.01
@Tutorial

Hi there @Friendica Developers and @Friendica Admins.

The plan is to change this single domain ubunu 2022.04lts VPS hosting into a single IP multi domain VPS server. For that purpose some apache VPS server tutorials were checked out and the specific steps were singled out to achieve that goal.

A main question hasn't been solved to define the naming of the folder structure and .conf files themself:

• Can the domain name in VPS folder structure be:
  /var/www/domaincom/
  or does it have to be
  /var/www/domain.com/

Are both options possible or does the system, for a correct working environment, need the dot in the folder structure?

Are there any general discussions in the #apache #server environment that might lead to some standard in this regard in the future that makes it reasonable to consider one of the two above cited options as more logical to go for from the very beginning?

In the case of very long domain or subdomain names, isn't it more reasonable to choose the option without the real domain name including the dot?
Example:
https: //1dhfsbbdpv4wshuh7nymcfy66t5reqqkfvy9.domain.org/

Depending on the chosen naming syntax this would lead to the following folder structure options:
/var/www/1dhfsbbdpv4wshuh7nymcfy66t5reqqkfvy9.domain.org/
vs
/var/www/1d_domainorg/

Does the naming of the .conf file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ refer to the actual domain name or to the folder name used in /var/www/?

In the first answer to this topic we'll address the question about:

• How to solve best a step by step change to migrate from a single VPS #hosting environment where one domain is served by one IP at:
  /var/www/html/
  to a multi domain VPS hosting were several domains are served by one IP on one #debian #ubuntu [2022.04lts] #VPS, leaving /html in place if a client request doesn’t match any other sites, like proposed in this digitalOcean tutorial:
  /var/www/html/ as fall back option
  /var/www/domaincom/index.html
/var/www/subdomaindomaincom/index.html
/var/www/domainorg/index.html
/var/www/subdomaindomainorg/index.html

Any comments hints and observations are really appreciated!
#admin #fediAdmin

utopiArte

2025-02-21 11:00:35

friendica

more tutorials

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-20-04
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-the-apache-web-server-on-ubuntu-22-04
https://askubuntu.com/questions/463618/setting-up-subdomain-on-ubuntu-server
https://serverfault.com/questions/343449/multiple-sub-domains-with-one-ip-address
nginx
https://farhazalam.medium.com/setup-domains-subdomains-on-vps-in-ubuntu-36495b37da66

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