Jtdcftul

I have had a site I was working on running in /var/www/html for a while. I'm starting a new project and would like to run another site locally.

After some googling, I was checking out this previous question: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1423044

I created a folder in /var/www called my-site and just cloned the git repo I will be using in there for the time being.

Then I added a file called my-site.com.conf to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled. Here's what it looks like:

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    ServerName www.my-site.com

DocumentRoot /var/www/my-site/

<Directory />

    Options FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride None

</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/my-site/>

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

    AllowOverride None

    Order allow,deny

    allow from all

</Directory>



ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">

    AllowOverride None

    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

</Directory>



ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log



# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

# alert, emerg.

LogLevel warn



CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined



Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"

<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">

    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride None

    Order deny,allow

    Deny from all

    Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128

</Directory>



</VirtualHost>

I added the following to /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1       www.my-site.com

I also ran the following command within /etc/apache2/sites-enabled:

ln -sf /etc/apache2/sites-available/my-site.com /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/my-site.com

The problem is that when I go in my browser to my-site.com, I am redirected to the old site that I had running on localhost before. My old site doesn't allow a user to go anywhere until they have logged in, and it seems like I am consistently being redirected to the login page.

How do I access my new site and set up an environment where I can work on both of these projects?

Let me know if I need to provide more information.

Thanks!

The content of your configuration file looks good. The problem is the filename - my-site.com. The configuration file must end with .conf, otherwise it wouldn't be included in the Apache's configuration by the directive IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf in the main conf. file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. So:

# remove the previously created symbolic link

sudo rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/my-site.com



# rename the configuration file

sudo mv /etc/apache2/sites-available/my-site.com{,.conf}



# enable the configuration file (create the symlink); use 'a2dissite' to disable

sudo a2ensite my-site.com.conf



# restart Apache2:

sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

Don't forget to flush your browser's cache and try to access your site.