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First things first. I'm a developer, not a server administrator. So I'm not to technical when it comes to servers.

I've just ordered a VPS and I'm trying to set up my first website. I'm running CentOS 5 and I'm using Plesk Parallels 9.3 to manage my server.

By default /httpdocs is the location for my website. I was thinking I could make one folder for each website I want to host, so it would be something like this:

/httpdocs/folder1 --> site 1 /httpdocs/folder2 --> site 2

and so on.

My problem is, how do I tell the server which folder to use for which site?

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Plesk doesn't work that way, at least not easily.
Look into using Domains->yourdomainname.com->Subdomains and set them up inside there.
The DocumentRoot will be /var/www/vhosts/domainname.com/subdomains/blah/httpdocs - alternatively you can setup the subdomain as a new domain inside Plesk, and it will then live under /var/www/vhosts/blah.domainname.com/httpdocs

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Crap! Does that mean that all my customers will have to be customer1.mysite.com? I would realy liek it to be www.customer.com and just point that site to the correct directory. What is the best way to configure my VPS to host multiple customers? I will also be using Wordpress Multisite where each website will be sub1.mysite.com, and then a WP plugin will remap customer.com to syb1.mysite.com. – Steven Sep 24 '10 at 16:23
Sorry but I really don't understand what you're trying to do. If you want each customer to have their own domain name, then follow the approach describe above of adding a new domain for it. If you want them as subdomains, add them as a subdomain. If you want them as folders, the way Plesk works, they'll have to be domain.com/folder. It is possible to setup symbolic links and house them elsewhere, but quite difficult with Plesk – James Lawrie Sep 24 '10 at 17:23
I figured it out. All I needed to do, was to create a vhost.config file, and there I just changed the DIR path for the site. – Steven Sep 25 '10 at 10:39
I thought you could only override tags inside a Document directive in there. Guess you learn something every day. Did you run websrvmng afterwards? – James Lawrie Sep 25 '10 at 11:04
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