Host multiple websites on an Apache server

To use this method it is necessary to enable the module "mod_alias".

Using Alias:

With aliases, it is possible to link an address like http://serveur/truc and a folder on the server.

 Alias /website /path/to/root/of/website

Whhen a client connects to http://serveur/website he is redirected to /path/to/root/of/website. We must also allow the folder to be read by adding:

 
 <Directory /path/to/root/of/website>
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
 </Directory>

The problem that may be encountered in a production environment is that aliases are case sensitive. To avoid this, it is possible to use:

 
 AliasMatch (?i)^/website(.*) /path/to/root/of/website$1

By using this alias paired with the regular expression, the alias is case insensitive.

Using aliases it is possible to host several websites on the same server. It only requires to create an alias for each hosted website.