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In this article, I will teach you how to create a virtual host named www.wordpress.example.com on your local machine, which will point to a local folder named wordpress under a specified location like /home/host/ on your machine. The wordpress folder will be your working folder for all the files run on the virtual host, and you’ll load the sample pages through http://www.wordpress.example.com. I assume that you already have LAMP installed and configured on your machine, if not, then read this article first: Install and Configure LAMP on Ubuntu

1. Add your subomain to your hosts file
Open up your network settings (System > Administration > Network)
Click on the Hosts tab, select the localhost alias and click properties
Add the subdomain(s) you want alongside localhost, separate with new lines, in this exercise, we will add: www.wordpress.example.com

2. Apply subdomains to folders:
Open up a terminal or the Run Application diaogue (Alt+f2), then run the command: gksudo gedit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

For each subdomain you need to add a VirtualHost clause, you also need to add one for the base localhost. The clause for each uses the template:



<VirtualHost *>
ServerName {Domain (e.g. localhost)}
DocumentRoot {Absolute path to folder for this domain (e.g. /var/www/)}
</Virtualhost>

Your file should end up looking something like this:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.wordpress.example.com
DocumentRoot /home/host/wordpress/
</Virtualhost>

3. Restart apache:
Open up the terminal and run: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
You should now be able to view your subdomains through whatever browser you use (but obviously only from your computer). All done!

4. Making use of it:
create a file named hullo_word.php, inside the file write something, now
log on to www.wordpress.example.com/hullo_word.php, you should get a message says: hullo world.

Now you are done!



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  1. mediafrenzy on March 12, 2008 7:24 am

    Hi, this is a really nice post, I have been reading a book called ‘Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP: A Developer’s Guide to SEO’, the book only teaches Mac and Windows users. Linux users like me are non-existing to them. Lucky that I found your post. This is great man.

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  4. ICANN reseller on May 13, 2008 1:49 pm

    With options such as creating a subdomain virtual host, its quite obvious why Ubuntu is one of the most popular threads of Linux.

    Thanks a lot for a fine read. Keep up the hard work :)

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  6. josh on August 6, 2008 9:41 pm

    Hi Highub, I’m hoping you can help me out and help me from going insane :-)

    I’m trying to do exactly what you have outlined, but I’m having a terrible time and I think its something to do w/ my Apache configuration.

    Here’s the nitty gritty:
    If I create an index.html file, then http://wp.domain.com goes to my wp directory. But, if I remove that index.html or insert a DirectoryIndex directive so it hits the default index.php file, the I’m redirected to http://www.domain.com. very weird. Below are the relevent segments of my config:

    ServerName wp.acmespringinc.com
    ServerAlias http://www.wp.acmespringinc.com wp.acmespringinc.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/wp/
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all

    /etc/hosts:
    127.0.0.1 localhost acmespringinc.com wp.acmespringinc.com

  7. admin on August 9, 2008 8:00 am

    Hi, josh

    Is your wp a fresh install or you moved it from main domain to subdomain? is your index.php the default wordpress index.php file?

  8. rajesh on September 18, 2008 7:07 am

    hi i have doubt in dynamic virtual subdomain creation. so i need help with full procedure ex- code for httpd.conf file ,hosts file, and ht access file .im using like test.com and i want to give individual sub domain each registered users. pls help me..

  9. admin on September 19, 2008 7:38 am

    Hi rajesh,

    i am afraid that test.com can’t be used for local testing.

    The only domains I know that can be used for local testing are something.example.com or http://localhost

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