How to host multiple website on one server in CentOS

Many time user required to host multiple websites in a single server. This reduces your hosting cost.

Apache2 is the most popular web server on the Internet right now. It’s way ahead of other open source web servers and it’s highly supported and extremely flexible.

Virtual hosting via Apache2 allows for a single server with a single IP address to host multiple websites.

Note: you must have one big server with more than enough resources, you can host multiple websites on that single machine.

Below method is useful in CentOS. Open apache configuration file which is located in below path.

Open this file in your favorite editor, my favorite editor is nano so I’m putting command using nano editor.

go to the end of the file and add below code.

Note: please take care of the following points.

• You have to use your email address in ServerAdmin
• DocumentRoot in this you have to use absolute path of your root directory of your application (website).
• ServerName in this you have to enter your domain name.

After editing the above file you must have to restart your apache server. for restart apache server you can use below code.

Note: if the server does not start properly and you are getting an error then you must have to make mistake in the above code so check code properly and try again.

you can use above code multiple times with different domain.

Enjoy Multiple websites in one server.