The Diary of a SysAdmin

In name based virtual hosting we run several web sites in one IP address.To do that request from browser should come in HTTP/1.1 protocol. To demonstrate this process I used this scenario. Imagine we have three web sites called as www.bict,lk , www.ucsc.lk and www.scs.lk. And our apache server runs in 192.168.1.1IP address and 8080 port. Following document roots are used. www.bict.lk    /var/opt/www.bict.lk/htdocs www.ucsc.lk   /var/opt/www.ucsc.lk/htdocs www.scs.lk   /var/opt/www.scs.lk/htdocs In an each htdocs directory you should create separate index.html files. note : You can change those document root in /etc/apache/sites-available/default file. And it has default document root as /var/www . To edit that use $ vi /etc/apache/sites-available/default    command. There should be a index files (index.html) relevant to each web site. To make easy understand I explain this step by step . step 1.      Edit the ports.conf file     $vi /etc/apache2/ports.conf     In thi

In this article I try to explain how to create our own log file in apache2. Log files are there to keep records about the details of users ,time , host's IP  etc.. These details are used to analyzed about the users who visits web sites. First of all you had to create a web site and should host in apache server.Following guidelines will help to you.According to your document root create a directories to keep your index file. In my case I keep it /var/www/www.mypage.lk/htdocs. If you are not define custom log file to your site it will go to default place in /var/log/apache2 .And I create a log directory in side the www.mypage.lk to keep records of www.mypage.lk. Normally log files are keep in /var/log/apache2. This is the default directory where apache log files are keep.  In this scenario I create log directory inside the www.mypage.lk directory. So my log file path will be /var/www/www.mypage.lk/logs. go to /etc/apache2 and edit ports.conf file ( you can use an editor like v