The Soothingly Seamless Setup of Virtual Hosts and Certificates (
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The second article in our series on setting up webservers the easy way, this article covers setting up virtual hosts, allowing you to server multiple domains from one box; and certificates, which are needed to do SSL.For this second half of
The Soothingly Seemless Setup of a Web Server,
we'll be learning how to set up virtual hosts, virtual hosts that use SSL, and
create our own certificates! If you don't have the Apache server installed, take
a look at the first part of the tutorial, the
The Soothingly
Seamless Setup of Apache, SSL, MySQL, and PHP. Also, for those who are
wondering, this article is aimed at people using *NIX systems.
Hopefully
after completing this guide, we will have achieved the following:
- Installed and set up a couple virtual hosts
-> Know how to install
normal virtual hosts
-> Know how to install SSL virtual hosts
- Installed and set up our own certificates
-> Know how to manage
certificates
-> Know how to get our certificates signed
