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Virtual hosting allows you to host many websites from one server.

Setup The Folders and users

1. adduser domain1
   addgroup domain1
   adduser www-data domain1
   mkdir -p /home/domain1
   chown domain1:domain1 -R /home/domain1
   chmod 750 -R /home/domain1

   adduser domain2
   addgroup domain2
   adduser www-data domain2
   mkdir -p /home/domain2
   chown domain2:domain2 -R /home/domain2
   chmod 750 -R /home/domain2

Lighttpd Config

1. Open your lighttpd.conf

   nano /etc/lighttpd.conf

2. Add the following for the virtual host configuration

   $HTTP["host"] == "domain1.com" {
   server.document-root = "/home/domain1"
   accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/domain1/access.log"
   }

   $HTTP["host"] == "domain2.com" {
   server.document-root = "/home/domain2"
   accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/domain2/access.log"
   }

3. Save your config and restart lighttpd

   /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart