Tag Archives: apache2

Apache SSL Vhosts and Default Vhosts Behavior

How to create an SSL Virtual Host with Apache2. How to couple this with normal Virtual Hosts already in production. Apache2 behavior when Server Name does not match and Virtual Host selection with SSL.

Name-Based Virtual Hosts with Apache

So here is the situation:

  • you just bought a domain, namely spectacular.com, and you want to point it to you home server with a static IP, or VPS or whatever…
  • you want to serve web-pages with apache and want to have configurations that enable you to configure several sub-domain, just like sub1.spectacular.com and sub2.spectacular.com;
  • you are running Ubuntu or some Debian-based server.

Apache supports name-based virtual hosts. This nice feature of apache, lets you

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