# Create virtualhost inside user directory ubuntu 22.04

In this article i will show you how to create virtual host for your domain or sub domain as far as i know, watch step below.

# Update and upgrade your system

like commonly type this `sudo apt update && sudo upgrade -y`

# Install Apache web server

type this to install apache2 `sudo apt install apache2`.

Check your apache2 status with this syntax `sudo systemctl status apache2` and you will see this.

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1658556020114/kXlNHH3rC.png align="left")

# Preparing directory user

you can create new user for that or existing user, you can set 1 user for 1 domain it will make easy for setup.

### For creating new user

type this `sudo adduser exampleuser`, it will create new user folder in this location `/home/exampleuser`. then you can check you user with this command `less /etc/passwd` or `cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd`.

## Add user to Apache www-data group

add *exampleuser* to Apache `www-data` group `sudo usermod -a -G www-data exampleuser`. and add that user to `sudo` group with this `sudo usermod -a -G sudo exampleuser`. then you can verify that user successfull to add group `groups exampleuser`. you can see list of member `www-data` so type `grep ^www-data /etc/group`.

## Create directory for application

prepare your application folder, make sure you create `public_html` folder inside your user directory, type this `mkdir public_html` make sure your directory like this `/home/exampleuser/public_html`.

# Create VirtualHost conf

go to `/etc/apache2/sites-available` then create conf file using vim `vim exampleuser.conf` here conf code:

```bash
#exampleuser.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin admin@domain.io
    ServerName exampleuser.com #your domain
    ServerAlias www.exampleuser.com #server alias
    DocumentRoot /home/arif/public_html #your path project

    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /home/exampleuser/public_html>
            AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/exampleuser-error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/exampleuser-access.log combined

</VirtualHost>
```

then you can check your syntax with `sudo apachectl config test`

# Enable Configuration

* enable your config file `sudo a2ensite exampleuser.conf`.
    
* enable userdir `sudo a2enmod userdir`.
    
* enable mod rewrite `sudo a2enmod rewrite`.
    
* then adding firewall `sudo ufw allow "Apache full"`.
    
* restart your apache `sudo systemctl reload apache2`.