How to Configure Virtual Hosts on Centos 7 Apache Server

Dec 20, 2019

Prerequisites for a vhost setup:

1chown -R apache:apache /path_to/site_root

Set the permission of the root directory to 755, you may already know. 🙂
Well, let’s create a vhost config file before you edit it.

1cd /etc/httpd/conf.d
2vim domain_name.conf

Now, grab this content to your config file:

 1<VirtualHost *:80>
 2
 3  ServerName domain.com
 4  ServerAlias www.domain.com
 5  DocumentRoot /var/www/path_to/site_root
 6
 7  <Directory /var/www/path_to/site_root>
 8    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
 9    AllowOverride All
10  </Directory>
11
12  CustomLog /var/log/httpd/domain.com-access.log combined
13  ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/domain.com-error.log
14  # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, alert, emerg.
15  LogLevel warn
16
17</VirtualHost>

Finally, restart the apache to check if you done well. 🙂

1sudo systemctl restart httpd

In some cases, like Laravel apps or Magento, in case you got stuck, don’t forget to check selinux status first.
Happy networking gents! 🙂