Creating a Virtual Host

In this section you will have the ability to create a Virtual Host, also known as a Virtual Server. Creating a Virtual Host through this method will be for hosting a Web site and will not affect any other virtual hosts. You must fill in all the required fields. A description of each field is listed below.

Address

Here you can enter the IP address of your new virtual host. You are allowed to have multiple virtual hosts on one IP address. The main reason to do this is so you can host many sites without the need to register more IP addresses. The Web server will know how to differentiate between the different virtual hosts when they are requested.

Administrator E-Mail

This will be the default e-mail address that will be displayed to a user who receives an error. Setting this to the owner and/or system administrator of the virtual host is recommended.

Server Name

This will be the name of the server. Enter in a valid FQDN.

Webmaster

This is the user who will own all of the files for this Web site. You can choose a user by clicking on ``...'' or you can type an existing user name in this box.

Group

This is the group that will have access to all of the files for this Web site. You can select an existing group by clicking on ``...'' or you can type an existing group name in this box.

If you wish to create a new group, click on the Create Group button and create a new group. You can then select this new group using the group chooser by clicking on ``...''.

Create a database for this site

If this box is checked, a database will be created for use with this site. You must enter a user name and password for accessing the database below.

Username

If you wish to create a database for this site, this will be the username associated with accessing the database which is created.

An example username is dbadmin.

Password

If you chose to create a database for this site, this will be the password associated with accessing the database which is created.

An example password is gu@rd1@n.

You can now click the Create button to create the virtual host.

After some processing you will be returned to the Virtual Servers main menu. You will see the new virtual host you created in the Virtual Servers list. If you created a new IP address or a new domain name for this virtual host you will have to add it to your DNS servers. Details on this are later in this section.

After the host is created you will now have the ability to edit that host.