CrazyRails ~ Flex on Ruby on Rails

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# Create Apache Vhosts for Subversion+Capistrano Web Applications
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Back in Part 2, we installed our Web 2.0 server applications.  Let’s continue our Linux web server setup by installing some Web 2.0 sites.  Web application sites are handled in apache2 server by setting up vhosts, or virtual hosts.  Virtual hosts allow you to setup your websites the way you want, all from a text config file that’s easy to create and make changes to.

# on remote server

# create apache vhost config for each web application site

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain1.com
# see apache2_sites-available_mydomain1.com file

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain2.net
# see apache2_sites-available_mydomain2.net file

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain3.ws
# see apache2_sites-available_mydomain3.ws file

# create self-signed ssl certificates

sudo make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/ssl/certs/mydomain1.com.pem

sudo make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/ssl/certs/mydomain2.net.pem

sudo make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/ssl/certs/mydomain3.ws.pem

# create web server’s public root directory as super

mkdir /home/super/public_html
#chown -R super:super /home/super/public_html

Done!

Now on to Part 4 where we setup a subversion repository for each of these apache vhosts we’ve setup…