We browse websites using a link/url like http://localhost/examplesite while developing a website/web application in localhost. But we can set a custom domain like dev.example or example.dev to visit the website we are developing. I am covering here in this post how to set up custom domain in Ubuntu. But setting up custom domain in Windows and Mac platform are almost same.
Step 01: Open terminal by pressing the key binding below
Step 02: Change the directory to etc using the command line cd /etc
Step 03: Now open the hosts file with gedit using the command line sudo gedit hosts
Step 04: Now add this line 127.0.0.1 dev.laraframe and save the hosts file
Step 05: Change directory to sites-enabled using this command line
Step 06: Use ls command to see the files inside sites-enabled folder, there you will see a file named 000-default.conf
Step 07: Now we will copy and rename this file as custom.conf using the command
Step 08: We will open this custom.conf file in a text editor using the command
Step 09: Then we will add these following lines below...
But you need to change some information against your localhost settings.
Step 11: Need to reload apache2 using the command line
Step 12: Restart apache2 using sudo service apache2 restart
Step 13: Now visit the site with your custom domain using your favorite browser
Step 01: Open terminal by pressing the key binding below
ctrl+alt+t
Step 02: Change the directory to etc using the command line cd /etc
cd /etc
Step 03: Now open the hosts file with gedit using the command line sudo gedit hosts
sudo gedit hosts
Step 04: Now add this line 127.0.0.1 dev.laraframe and save the hosts file
127.0.0.1 dev.laraframe
Step 05: Change directory to sites-enabled using this command line
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/Step 06: Use ls command to see the files inside sites-enabled folder, there you will see a file named 000-default.conf
Step 07: Now we will copy and rename this file as custom.conf using the command
sudo cp 000-default.conf custom.confStep 08: We will open this custom.conf file in a text editor using the command
sudo gedit custom.confStep 09: Then we will add these following lines below...
But you need to change some information against your localhost settings.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/projectfolder
<Directory "/var/www/html/projectfolder">
Options +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Step 10: We have to enable the custom.conf now using the command line sudo a2ensite custom.confStep 11: Need to reload apache2 using the command line
systemctl reload apache2
Step 12: Restart apache2 using sudo service apache2 restart
Step 13: Now visit the site with your custom domain using your favorite browser
