Forward certain URL(Domain) to specific folder on the Server with Apache2 Virtual Host and Debian5

If you have a Apache2 Web server that hosts different websites you might have them in different folders under /var/www (standard root folder in Apache2 on Debian5). For each project you have your own domain. Each domain should now point to a different folder.

For example you have mydomain.com, my2nddomain.com.
mydomain.com should hit /var/www/folder1/index.html and my2nddomain.com should display the index.html of /var/www/folder2/index.php (Lets assume folder2 contains a php application like Joomla).

First of all make sure that both domains point to the IP of your server. Normally Apache2 is running under port 80 so you don't need to specify the port.

Now open for example with vim or nano the Apache2 according Apache config file:

nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

Here you should add two entries at the very end of the file:



<virtualhost *:80>
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias *.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/folder2"
DirectoryIndex index.html
<directory "/var/www/folder">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<virtualhost *:80>
ServerName my2nddomain.com
ServerAlias *.my2nddomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/folder2"
DirectoryIndex index.php
<directory "/var/www/folder2">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Now don't forget to restart the Apache2 server with:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

And you are good to go.