This tutorial will teach beginners to setup local dev site on Ubuntu.

First step in this process is to edit Apache’s primary configuration file at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

I used the below command to open apache2.conf

cd /etc/apache2/
subl /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

or you can use

sudo nano apache2.conf

Then I added the below line at the bottom of the file.

IncludeOptional /home/sibi/conf/vhosts.conf

Created conf and www folder in home

and then created vhosts.conf file with following content in /home/sibi/conf/

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
        ServerName demo.test
        DocumentRoot /home/sibi/www/demo
        <Directory "/home/sibi/www/demo">
            Options All
            AllowOverride All
            Require all granted
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Opened the hosts file

subl /etc/hosts

and added the below line

127.0.0.1 demo.test

Created demo folder inside ‘www’ (/home/sibi/www/), then created index.html file for demo folder.

Restarted apache

    sudo service apache2 restart