Apache Configuration Template and Design

This repo is for those who would like a helping hand to quickly and easily setup Virtual Hosts on Apache.

This Apache configuration template and design can be used in:

• production environments as a way of keeping configuration files clean and neat.
• development environments to quickly and easily deploy new Virtual Hosts as required.

Paths and their purposes

Path	Details
/home/user/projects	All website files go here within project folders. Usually one might git clone a repo which will create a folder here.
/home/user/vhosts/logs	The location where all Virtual Host log files are stored.
/home/user/vhosts/ssl	SSL Certificates are generated here in sub-folders each named after the Virtual Host server name that they cater for.
/etc/apache2/sites-available	The location where Apache stores its site configurations. Each site is usually its own file but sites can be declared within the same file if needed.

Creating a new Virtual Host

Using this template design, the process of creating a new Virtual Host becomes the following (running as root):

1. cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/ && cp sample-site.conf new-site.conf
2. Modify /etc/apache2/sites-available/new-site.conf with your favourite text editor.
3. cd /home/user/vhosts/ssl && ./generate-self-signed-ssl.sh "new-site.com"
4. a2ensite new-site
5. service apache2 restart