Introduction

In order to manually configure a Virtual Subhost, connect to your Virtual Private Server via SSH, su to root, and do the following: Run either vadduser to create the primary user's account, or run vedituser to grant the user web and FTP permissions. This will create a www directory under their username. The www directory will contain both a cgi-bin directory and a logs directory. For each Virtual Subhost you configure on your Virtual Private Server you will need to create a new directory for the Virtual Subhost domain files in the specified User's www directory. # mkdir -p ~/home/USERNAME/www/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME Open up your web server configuration file (/www/conf/httpd.conf) and add the following lines in the <VirtualHost> section of the file to ensure compatibility with Microsoft FrontPage. The <VirtualHost> section is found at the bottom of the file. <VirtualHost YOUR.IP.ADD.RESS:80> User USERNAME Group USERNAME ServerName SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME ServerAdmin webmaster-DOMAIN.NAME DocumentRoot /home/USERNAME/www/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/USERNAME/www/cgi-bin/" <Directory /home/USERNAME/www/cgi-bin> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> CustomLog /home/USERNAME/www/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /home/USERNAME/www/logs/error_log </VirtualHost> NOTE: If you want this Virtual Host SSL enabled, you will need to add the following entry as well: <VirtualHost YOUR.IP.ADD.RESS:443> SSLEnable User USERNAME Group USERNAME ServerName SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME ServerAdmin webmaster-DOMAIN.NAME DocumentRoot /home/USERNAME/www/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/USERNAME/www/cgi-bin/" <Directory /home/USERNAME/www/cgi-bin> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> CustomLog /home/USERNAME/www/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /home/USERNAME/www/logs/error_log </VirtualHost> You must substitute the VPS IP address in place of YOUR.IP.ADD.RESS above. NOTE: If the specified User will be responsible for more than one Virtual Host, you may want to create separate virtual host logs, rather than combined logs. CustomLog /home/USERNAME/www/logs/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME-access_log combined ErrorLog /home/USERNAME/www/logs/SUBHOST-DOMAIN.NAME-error_log For more details about Virtual Subhosts and e-mail, see the following. The Virtusertable - Providing E-Mail for Virtual Subhosts