Custom File Locations for Subhosts

# point www.church.org and church.org 
# to subdirectory church
<VirtualHost www.church.org church.org>
ServerName church.org 
ServerAdmin avi@church.org
DocumentRoot /www/vhosts/church
TransferLog /www/vhosts/church/logs/access_log
ErrorLog /www/vhosts/church/logs/error_log
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/vhosts/church/cgi-bin/
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/notfound.html
</VirtualHost>

This code isolates the log files for the church Virtual Subhost rather than having them all lumped into the master log files. You will need to create the logs directory that you define using the TransferLog and ErrorLog directives. You can create the directory by connecting to your Virtual Server and issuing the command:

% mkdir ~/www/vhosts/church/logs

Error Documents
Most server resource directives can be included in your <VirtualHost> definition. For example, we can include the definition of a "Not Found Document" (ErrorDocument 404) in the church VirtualHost definition:

# point www.church.org and church.org 
# to subdirectory church
<VirtualHost www.church.org church.org>
ServerName church.org 
ServerAdmin avi@church.org
DocumentRoot /www/vhosts/church
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/vhosts/church/cgi-bin/
ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html
</VirtualHost>

Note the file location is specified with respect to the DocumentRoot.... so the actual file location of notfound.html is:

~/www/vhosts/church/notfound.html