Add site to Apache web server on Ubuntu

ubuntu-apache-site.md

Add site to Apache web server on Ubuntu

(tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4.7)

1. Add site configration

• Go to /etc/apache2/sites-available, open terminal and execute sudo cp 000-default.conf MySite.conf.
• Open site config sudo gedit MySite.conf and change content to:

Listen 8022
<VirtualHost *:8022>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot /path/to/MySite
	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
	<Directory /path/to/MySite>
		Require all granted
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

2. Enable site and restart apache

• Enable site - sudo a2ensite MySite.conf (to disable site use sudo a2dissite MySite.conf)
• Restart Apache - sudo service apache2 restart

3. Browse site

Open localhost:8022 in the browser.

If you get 403 error while loading site content files, open terminal in your site folder and execute sudo chmod -R 755 .

If you get 404 error with "javascript" subfolder, open terminal and run sudo apt-get remove javascript-common

4. (optional) Configure local hosts file

• Open your site config file (MySite.conf), add line ServerAlias mysite.com after ServerAdmin and change port to 80.
• Go to /etc, open terminal and execute sudo gedit hosts.
• Add line 127.0.0.1 mysite.com.
• Restart Apache.

I would add a TIP: if a white page shows when browsing the site could be you have wrong permissions
e.g. in linux you should run chown to user www-data (apache2 user) the whole site tree
#chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/MySite