Changing default apache web directories

Question

How to point someaddress.lan to default apache page and www.someaddress.lan to /var/www/wordpress/? Should I modify this file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default/etc/apache2/sites-available/default or place some symlinks in default apache dir? What is the right way?

Answer 1

The right way is to use separate virtualhosts for each one of them. The exact method would depend on your distribution - debian uses a slightly different workflow.

Ubuntu has a nice guide here but i'll simplify it a little based off here

You need to create two files in /etc/apache2/sites-available

The names can be arbitrary but someaddress.lan and www.someaddress.lan would work

To do this, nano someaddress.lan

paste in the following

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName someaddress.lan
  DocumentRoot /var/www
</VirtualHost>

for the other file nano www.someaddress.lan

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName www.someaddress.lan
  DocumentRoot /var/www/wordpress
</VirtualHost

run a2ensite someaddress.lan and a2ensite www.someaddress.lan

and restart apache you should be good