Serve many Laravel apps (virtual hosts) on one VPS WITHOUT DOMAIN

I have laravel already working on one virtual host.

But can we serve many apps on one VPS WITHOUT buying the domain, using the ip?

To make it more obvious it can be:

http://ip/myaliasttest should lead to <Directory /var/www/html/site1/public> and http://ip/myaliasttest2 should lead to <Directory /var/www/html/site2/public>

there should be nothing available on http://ip

Nash

7 years ago

Level 20

You can use one IP with multiple domains/subdomains or you can use multiple IP's (or different ports) and no domains but I don't think you can easily use one IP with multiple apps like you describe (without risk of exposing the application directories). Hover.com has domains for as low as $4.99/year so it's not a huge investment. For local development, you can point non-existing domains (e.g. myapp.test) to your IP.

See this article: https://www.tecmint.com/apache-ip-based-and-name-based-virtual-hosting/

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kordix

7 years ago

Level 4

I'm going to buy the domain, big thanks for answer

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