Uploaded April 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A quick guide on setting up your first websites with Linux + Apache. I'll walk you through two methods:

1. Ultra Simple
# Simple website in the existing /var/www/html directory
Just add files to /var/www/html

2. Apache virtualhosts (more professional, easier to manage, allows for multitenancy)

# Comment out everything in the 'welcome' config file
vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf

# Create directories
mkdir -p /var/www/test.tutorialinux.com/public_html

# Copy website files to the newly created directory above

# Put your virtualhost definition in the main apache config file (fine for a few sites, painful for true multitenancy)
vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

# If you don't have DNS pointing to the domain listed in your ServerName, edit /etc/hosts on the machine you want to VISIT the site from:
vim /etc/hosts

# The site won't be live for other people on the web, but you'll be able to see it.

In this video, I'm using Centos (RedHat) Linux, although you can use whichever Linux distribution you like.





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