Domain and subdomains under one IP

Question

I have a goal to host few websites as subdomains.(Apache2 at Ubuntu 18.04 at Google Cloud Platform) Directories:

/var/www/domain.com/public_html- main directory for real registered domain

my subdomains

/var/www/test1.domain.com/public_html

/var/www/test2.domain.com/public_html

/var/www/test3.domain.com/public_html

Access to subdomains by address test(1,2,3).domain.com

I'm new with Apache2 so it's possibe I want something unreal or use Apache2 in wrong way. If so could you show my mistakes?

I tried to configure Virtual hosts but unsuccessful. Maybe it is possible make it via htaccess?

domain.com.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin admin@mail.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.com/public_html
    ServerName domain.com
    ServerAlias www.domain.com

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

test1.domain.com.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin admin@mail.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/test1.domain.com/public_html
    ServerName test1.domain.com

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Answer 1

The trouble was not in Apache configuration. It was correct. If you will have the same goal as mine, first of all you need

• create subdomains at your domain registrar
• create new A records under main domain in cloud DNS for each subdomain(Google Cloud Platform in my case)
• wait (half hour in my case)

And only then configure Apache webserver.