Execute the following commands after ssh into vps:
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/example.com
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/example.com
cd /var/www/
sudo chown www-data:www-data * -R
sudo usermod -a -G www-data username-logged-in-as
cd
sudo nano /var/www/example.com/index.html
Add a basic html page for now:
<html>
<head>
<title>www.example.com</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Success: You Have Set Up a Virtual Host</h1>
</body>
</html>
Setup sites-available by copying the default setup:
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.conf
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.conf
Next setup the domain virtual hosts file:
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com
Redirect 301 http://www.example.com http://example.com
Make sure we have AllowOverride set to All so .htaccess files work properly and make sure Indexes is removed from Options to prevent directory listing:
<Directory /var/www>
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Let's also prevent hotlinking of files:
SetEnvIf Referer example\.com localreferer
<FilesMatch \.(jpg|png|gif|css|js|pdf|doc|xls|txt)$>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from env=localreferer
</FilesMatch>
Activate and restart:
sudo a2ensite example.conf
sudo service apache2 restart
Add a new database and user for that database:
CREATE DATABASE example;
CREATE USER 'newuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON example . * TO 'newuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Dump a database and import a database:
mysqldump -u [username] -p [database name] > [database name].sql
mysql -u [username] -p newdatabase < [database name].sql