Here\u2019s how to host multiple sites on your EC2 instance running the Amazon Linux AMI. \u00a0You might want to host different websites on a single instance, or perhaps just different subdomains, i.e., \u201csubdomain.yoursite.com\u201d (this is what I wanted to do).<\/p>\n\n
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The first thing you should do, if you haven\u2019t already, is\u00a0assign a static IP address to your EC2 instance.<\/strong>\u00a0You can do this in the Amazon EC2 control panel (go to Elastic IPs -> Allocate New Address).\u00a0 Assign the IP address to your instance, and write it down for later.<\/p>\n\n So, the next step is to go ahead and\u00a0point your URL at your EC2 IP address<\/strong>. \u00a0Log into your domain hosting account. \u00a0In this case, I\u2019ll describe how to do it for Go Daddy. Launch the Domains control panel and click the first domain that you want to point to your EC2 server.<\/p>\n\n Now, SSH into your EC2 instance using a terminal window (Mac) or Putty or Cygwin on a PC. There are many online tutorials on how to set this up.\u00a0\u00a0Then follow these instructions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Did it work? If not, here is one possible cause.\u00a0There might be another configuration file interfering with this one.<\/strong>\u00a0Check for another .conf file in\u00a0\/etc\/httpd\/conf.d. \u00a0Often your primary httpd.conf will include another .conf file in this directory. Make sure it doesn\u2019t have some Virtual Host settings which are interfering with yours. \u00a0If so, comment them out.<\/p>\n\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s how to host multiple sites on your EC2 instance running the Amazon Linux AMI. \u00a0You might want to host different websites on a single instance, or perhaps just different…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,85,86],"tags":[81,103,104,105],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aws","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-aws","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu","tag-virtual-host"],"yoast_head":"\nPoint the URLs to Your EC2 IP Address<\/h3>\n\n
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Setting Up the Server<\/h3>\n\n
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NameVirtualHost *.80<\/code><\/pre>\nIf your httpd.conf file does not have this line, don\u2019t add\u00a0it. \u00a0Newer versions of Apache don\u2019t need it. \u00a0 (If you are unsure, you can add it and you\u2019ll just get a warning when you restart httpd).<\/li>\n<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot \"\/var\/www\/html\/website1_folder\"
ServerName yourdomain.com
ErrorLog \"logs\/yourdomain.com-error_log\"
CustomLog \"logs\/yourdomain.com-access_log\" common
<\/VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot \"\/var\/www\/html\/website2_folder\"
ServerName subdomain.yourdomain.com
ErrorLog \"logs\/yourdomain.com-error_log\"
CustomLog \"logs\/yourdomain.com-access_log\" common
<\/VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot \"\/var\/www\/html\/website3_folder\"
ServerName anotherdomain.com
ErrorLog \"logs\/yourdomain.com-error_log\"
CustomLog \"logs\/yourdomain.com-access_log\" common
<\/VirtualHost><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
> sudo service httpd restart<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n