acces vhost in a virtual machine

Hi everyone.
I recently switched from MacOS to Debian, and I'm still sorting out my work environment.
On MacOS I used Mamp as a web and db server, and I could create any instance I wanted to test my work on php 5.6, 7.0 or 7.1 for instance.

In parallel, I've been using ISPConfig in production for a while now; each site could run different php version, apache headers, etc.

Let say we have three domain name : mydomain.fr, site1.mydomain.fr and site2.mydomain.fr all directed to MY_SERVER_IP
and that the server has two sites, site1.mydomain.fr and site2.mydomain.fr.
if I browse http://site1.mydomain.fr or http://site2.mydomain.fr I will indeed use the websites/settings set in ISPConfig for each, while if I browse http://mydomain.fr/site1/ or http://mydomain.fr/site2/ the server will return both site but using the default server settings, and for this reason I came to create a site name 0000-defaultsite.tld in order to have a clear view of the situation and "avoid" such "issue"

Now I installed the perfect server in a virtual box running on my new debian computer
On my host computer, I can access the webserver on the virtual box, browsing its local IP (this tuto explains how I set it up) ;
and I can get to ispconfig using https://Virtualbox-Local-IP:8080 or the webmail we install with http://Virtualbox-Local-IP/webmail

However how can I acces each website created in ISPConfig ?
As I'm in local, on the same computer (virtually) I don't use domains.
Do I have to ? and do I have to set de DNS server to redirect *.blabla.test toward the IP of my virtual machine ?
Isn't there any easier way ?

Thank's in advance

 

whaaa, that's absolutly excelent !

thank's

 

@till

I'm a bit confused actually
On the host system, I added this line in /etc/hosts

Code:

Virtualbox-local-IP        vb1-deb.example.com

Virtualbox-local-IP being the IP of the virtual ethernet card of my virtualbox machine configured like here
vb1-deb.example.com being the server name I defined on the virtual machine folowing the perfect server tutorial for debian stretch.

On my host web broswer,

• http://Virtualbox-local-IP as well as http://Virtualbox-local-IP/webmail and https://Virtualbox-local-IP:8080 indeed point toward my virtual machine, as mentionned above

• http://vb1-deb.example.com, http://vb1-deb.example.com/webmail and https://vb1-deb.example.com point toward my virtual machine, so it seems we are good, but.
• if I create in ISPConfig a client and two sites, vb1-deb.example.com and site0.vb1-deb.exampe.com
  • http://vb1-deb.exampe.com points properly (as above)
  • https://vb1-deb.exampe.com return the folowing error :SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG ; which is probably normal since I haven't dealt with certificated and https yet
    
  • http://site0.vb1-deb.exampe.com returns "unable to find this page" ?!
  • https://site0.vb1-deb.exampe.com returns "unable to find this page" ?!

I really don't undertand the two last cases.
Well, I assume that I may define every single sites in /ect/hosts on my host system, but that seems sub-optimal.

So what's the proper way forward ?
Thank's

PS : I checked and there is indeed a folder /etc/var/www/site0.vb1-deb.example.com/

 

ok,
I tried *.vb1-deb.example.com and *vb1-example.com but it didn't work :-(
well I would hope there was a way to set it for a domain and each of it's subdomains (even if I got that there is not really such thing a subdomain as they are normal domains)

Thank's you made my day (again - but I'll probably have to bother you with http/https pretty soon)

 

yep, I actually use my nas as a dns server to resolve a single domain I use to sync/back-up my files,
using a dns server was thus my first guess but I may well want to work on my virtual machine for elsewhere thant the local network the nas is, or even without internet connexion so using a dns server would imply to install it locally on my main debian install, but i think it's heavy work just to resolve few *domains.
I'll thus edit etc/hosts for every domain/subdomain. That's kind of a pity but not a big deal.

Thank's for your help !

ps : is there some specific recomendation (post you could direct me to) to install/use ssl certificates on virtual machine like my setup ?
I've seen that the perfect server tutorial for debian stretch uses cerbot so it's a good start ;-)

ps2 : i've read the let's encrypt faq and have seen that if I'm behind a NAT I have to disable let's encrypt check from the system preferences ;-)

 

ok, it makes sense
thank's