How can I set up sub domains on a ubuntu machine

[ryy705]

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Hello,

I am trying to setup WordPress multi site on my ubuntu 10.04 laptop with apache2.

For normal WordPress installs in create an entry in the /etc/hosts file and create virtual hosts entry in /etc/apace2/sites-available directory and then soft link it to sites-enabled directory.
For sub domains, I added the server alias directive. But that is not doing anything. Do I have a syntax error. Please advice.

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
 ServerName mysite.com
 ServerAlias mysite.com *.mysite.com
 DocumentRoot /home/myhome/Sites/public_html/mysite.com
 #if using awstats
 ScriptAlias /awstats/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
 #we want specific log file for this server
 CustomLog /var/log/apache2/example.com-access.log combined
 </VirtualHost>

[jdMorgan]

You will need to declare each subdomain in your hsots file, AFAIK.

You do not need to include the "ServerName" in the "ServerAlias" list. It's redundant there.

Jim