Convert localhost to domain name for your project in Ubuntu/Mint

Hello friends today Iam going to show you how you can convert http://localhost/your_project_name to http://your_domain_name in ubuntu. If you are working on some project then it will be easier to open your project using http://domain_name rather than typing http://localhost/your_project_name each and every time you view it in your browser.It is very easy to map your project directory to domain name. Lets get started...

Note: Iam assuming that you have Apache 2 installed on your machine.

Assumption: Let my current project is /var/www/mvc_project and I want to open it by domain name sjframework.com in my browser.

Step 1: Go to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

$ cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

Step 2: Make copy of 000-default file.

$ sudo cp 000-default myproject

Step 3: Now open your newly created file i,e. myproject with your favorite text-editor and make following changes and save it.

$ sudo vim myproject

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
     #add servername
     ServerName any_name_you_want
     #add domain name
     ServerAlias domain_name_you_want
     
     #specify your project directory
     DocumentRoot  /var/www/your_project_directory
     <Directory />
       Options FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    <Directory  /var/www/your_project_directory>
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      allow from all
    </Directory>

Here is my 000-default and myproject files

Step 4: Now open /etc/hosts file and add following line and save it.

$ sudo vim /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 your_domain_name

Step 5: Restart apache server.

$ sudo service apache2 restart

Now open your project with your specified domain name

Note : You can specify different domain name for different projects by creating different files in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory.

Note : This domain name is only local.

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