Hosting Multiple Websites or Namebased,IPbased Virtual hosts in Lighttpd

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Virtual hosting allows sharing a lighttpd web server so that you can have multiple domains hosted on single web server. For example:

=> www.test1.com
=> www.test2.com
=> www.test3.com etc

Lighttpd supports both Name-based and IP-based virtual hosts. Let us see how to configure two sites for domain

www.test1.com
www.test3.com

First create a directory for each domain:

# mkdir -p /home/lighttpd/test1.com/http

# mkdir -p /home/lighttpd/test3.com/http

# chown lighttpd:ftpuser1 /home/lighttpd/test1.com/http

# chown lighttpd:ftpuser2 /home/lighttpd/test3.com/http

Replace ftpuser1 and 2 with actual ftp username.

Also create a log directory for each domain:

# mkdir /var/log/lighttpd/test1.com

# mkdir /var/log/lighttpd/test3.com

Only allow a web server to access our logs:

# chown -R lighttpd:lighttpd /var/log/lighttpd

Open lighttpd configuration file:

# vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Add support for domain test1.com:

$HTTP[”host”] =~ “(^|\.)test1\.com$” {
server.document-root = “/home/lighttpd/test1.com/http”
server.errorlog = “/var/log/lighttpd/test1/error.log”
accesslog.filename = “/var/log/lighttpd/test1/access.log”
server.error-handler-404 = “/e404.php”
}

Add support for domain test3.com:

$HTTP[”host”] =~ “(^|\.)test3\.com$” {
server.document-root = “/home/lighttpd/test3.com/http”
server.errorlog = “/var/log/lighttpd/test3.com/error.log”
accesslog.filename = “/var/log/lighttpd/test3.com/access.log”
server.error-handler-404 = “/e404.php”
}

Where,

$HTTP[”host”] =~ “(^|\.)test3\.com$” : It will match request for both www.test3.com and test3.com domain
server.document-root = “/home/lighttpd/test3.com/http” : Server document root. You must set ftp/ssh user home directory to this root only
server.errorlog = “/var/log/lighttpd/test3.com/error.log” : Server access log file
accesslog.filename = “/var/log/lighttpd/test3.com/access.log”: Server error log file
server.error-handler-404 = “/e404.php” : Web server error 404 handler file
Save the changes. Restart the server.

# /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

Upload file(s) to respective web-root and test your configuration with web browser.

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