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Setup a website on the Pi

Setup a VirtualHost on the Pi

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/

We'll create a website named joebob.com

We must first setup the virtual host on the Pi, then define the hostname on the machine we'll load it from (Windows)

On the Pi

  • We'll use gedit instead of vi as a text editor.
    You can use either, just substitue one for the other or install gedit 
    
$ sudo apt install gedit
  1. Navigate to /var/www/html and create a new directory named vhosts:
    If it doesn't already exist 
    
$ sudo mkdir /var/www/html/vhosts
  2. Create a new directory within the vhosts directory 
    
-- enter the vhosts directory  
$ cd /var/www/html/vhosts    

-- create a new sub-directory
$ sudo mkdir joebob.com
  3. Create a new index.html file within the new directory 
    
-- enter the joebob.com directory  
$ cd joebob.com    

-- create a new file
$ sudo touch index.html

-- open the file in an editor (in our case gedit - cuz vi sux)
$ sudo gedit index.html
    ...and add this to the file: 
    
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>Hosted!</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>This is a hosted site</h1>
</bodyv
</html>
  4. Create a new .conf file in the /etc/apache2/sites-available directory by copying the default one in there: 
    
-- change to the sites-available directory
$ sudo cd /etc/apache2/sites-available    

-- copy the file
$ sudo cp 000-default.conf joebob.com.conf
  5. Edit the file that was just created: 
    
$ sudo gedit joebob.com.conf
    and define the following: 
    
...    
ServerName joebob.com
ServerAlias www.joebob.com         -- optional
ServerAdmin wemaster@joebob.com    -- optional
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/vhosts/joebob.com/
...
  6. Activate the host by running the apache command: 
    
$ sudo a2ensite joebob.com
  7. Reload the apache server: 
    
$ sudo systemctl reload apache2

On Windows

Navigate to C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc and edit the hosts file

Add the IP and domain name to the end of the file


...
10.163.37.227  joebob.com