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Before we continue it's important to understand what we'll be doing in the next part of this course.

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We're now going to be setting up virtual hosts that allow multiple domains to be served from a single

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server.

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To recap so far we've deployed a droplet installed Aposhian my SU ph P and ph my admin.

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So let's go ahead and get started on working with virtual hosts.

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It's important to understand that by default a pause she identifies the HD directory in the w w w folder

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as the root folder for our web pages.

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This means when someone visits our primary web site domain applause she will load the index dot h DML

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file located in the DML directory.

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Now when I say primary domain what I mean is if you're only hosting one domain on your web server if

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your whole hosting multiple domain names then you don't have a primary domain.

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Since we will be working with multiple domains each domain will need to point to its own unique directory.

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So for example x y z dot com will need to load the default index page from the x y z dot com folder

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that we create.

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So here is a sample of the directory structure we're going to be creating.

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In our w w w folder we're gonna create a directory for each domain name.

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So for example if you had two domains.

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This is exactly what your directory structure would look like.

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The domain name is the folder name.

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And then inside that folder we would have another folder called aged.

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And inside the HMO folder would be all our Web site files.

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OK.

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And that's the same if you had a second domain.

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That's exactly what it would look like except that the domain name would be different.

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So instead of x y z dot com your second domain can be ABC dotcom.

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So it's fairly straightforward and you can have 10 20 however many of these as you needed to have.

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So if you're running a small hosting company you might have 100 clients where you can set up 100 directories

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each with a different domain name.

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So this is the first step before we actually go on to creating virtual hosts and we'll see you in the

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next lecture.