Two domains one IP address, one website

[CapnPugwash]

We have an Ubuntu server running Apache, from which we host our website (Joomla) & VLE (Moodle). Each has a separate IP address.

 

In the new year we are changing the name of our school, so we are in the process of registering a new domain name. for a couple of months both the old domain name and the new one will exist. I want both domain names to point to the same sites.

 

Is this as easy as creating new virtual host files in apache2/sites-available and enabling them?

 

Example : In my sites available I currently have four virtual host files, myschool, myschool-ssl, myschoolvle, myschoolvle-ssl.

Can I create four more virtual host files myNEWschool, myNEWschool-ssl, myNEWschoolvle, myNEWschoolvle-ssl, pointing at the same website/VLE and IP address but with different domain names?

 

*NOTE* I know I'll need new SSL certs!

[Blue_Cookeh]

You can do this with non-SSL websites for sure, and it is just a case of using virtualhosts as you outlined... but (and I may be wrong!) adding SSL using just one IP address gets a little more complex and involves extra setup. I can't remember the name of the configs now though, sorry

[Bradlys]

Forgive me if I'm missing this.

 

If you're still hosting the old site on one of the IP addresses, you can use .htaccess to redirect.

 

make a file called .htaccess in the root of your old site and paste this in it:

 

 

 

# This allows you to redirect your entire website to any other domain

Redirect 301 / http://newdomain.com/

[dhicks]

Is this as easy as creating new virtual host files in apache2/sites-available and enabling them?

 

Should be even easier - both domain names will point to the same IP address, your Apache server will simply serve web pages, no matter what domain name the browser thinks it's looking at.

[CapnPugwash]

OK, thanks everyone. It looks like HTTP is easy and HTTPS is a bit more complicated.

 

We get our SSL certs through the LEA. It looks like we can use a SAN cert (a bit like a fancy wildcard cert?) that will cover usage for both domains AND all sub domains.

 

This isn't the kind of stuff I do every day but it *looks* like I shouldn't have too many problems... !!!!!!!!!!!