Configuring Apache

To keep with my debian-ish standards for how I manage my web server I wanted my new WordPress installation to show up in my /var/www directory using the name of the site it should be accessed at [blog292.my.home]. To accomplish this, I created a soft link to the word press install. Then I created a new Apache config file in /etc/apache2/sites-available for my new site.

sudo ln -s /usr/share/wordpress.2.9.2/ /var/www/blog292.my.home
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/blog292.my.home

The Apache config file ended up looking like this.

<VirtualHost *>

 RewriteEngine On

 ServerAdmin admin@my.home

 ServerName blog292.my.home

 DocumentRoot /var/www/blog292.my.home
 <Directory /var/www/blog292.my.home>
 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
 Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI Multiviews

 AllowOverride Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

 <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from 192.168.0
 </Limit>
 <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
 Order deny,allow
 Allow from 192.168.0
 </LimitExcept>
 </Directory>

 ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/blog292.my.home-error.log
 # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
 # alert, emerg.
 LogLevel warn
 CustomLog /var/log/apache2/blog292.my.home-access.log combined
 ServerSignature On

</VirtualHost>

Next I enabled the new site and restarted Apache.

sudo a2ensite blog292.my.home

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

And finally, I updated my local DNS server to alias blog292.my.home to my web server web.my.home.

sudo nano /etc/bind/zones/my.home.db

The entry I added was as follows

blog292         IN      CNAME   web

Start ‘er up

After a few quick ping checks on the new DNS name, I crossed my fingers and pointed my browser to the WordPress initial install location [http://blog292.my.home/wp-admin/install.php].

The installation came right up, and a few clicks later, my WordPress 2.9.2 sandbox was up and running.