Adding a Virtual Host to Apache2 based on Name in CentOS 5

Well today I was setting up our new web development server and I wanted to use Host / Name based virtual hosts in apache, instead of the previous use of ports.

Much to my amazment this one is really simple.

Make sure to uncomment or add in:

NameVirtualHost *:80

Since I don't want to add multple IP's to the server and I always want to use port 80 (The default for http). 

Then I added 

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerName scorpio.mydomain.local

        ServerAlias scorpio

        DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

        ServerPath /html/

        DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerName dev.mydomain.local

ServerAlias www.mydowmain.local mydomain.local

        DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

        ServerPath /html/

        DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerName dev.myotherdomain.local

ServerAlias www.myotherdowmain.local myotherdomain.local

        DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

        ServerPath /html/

        DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerName dev.mythirddomain.local

ServerAlias www.mythirddowmain.local mythirddomain.local

        DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

        ServerPath /html/

        DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm

</VirtualHost>

When it was all said and done this was pretty easy.  Not as easy as doing the same thing in IIS in my opinion but still very easy.  I could have tried this with Webmin but I did this all using vi from the CLI.