Apache2- need multiple projects with same domain that use different path after domain name - configuration

Question

I have 2 completely different projects I would like to host from the same domain name "mysimpledomainname.com" with ip address xx.xx.xxx.xx (not local)
The 2 projects are located at
Project 1) /var/www/html/project1
Project 2) /var/www/html/project2
I would like to have the 2 projects resolve like this
Project 1
mysimpledomainname.com
project 2
mysimpledomainname.com/project2
I DO NOT want to use subdomain names. This is for a project on my public server, not my local machine, so I don't think updating the host file will help me.
I already have the first project loading from mysimpledomainname.com (it's already working).
In the directory sites-available I have the conf file mysimpledomainname.com.conf with values:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin myemail#gmail.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/project1
<Directory /var/www/html/project1/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
RewriteEngine On
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
I think I need to have 2 different conf files set up in order to do this, but after searching around I have not been able to find a solution.
Can anyone help me with this? Rather than giving a short answer can you post exactly what I would need for the 2 different conf files?
Thanks,
David

Answer 1

You can have only 1 VirtualHost directive as this is defined per FQDN and you want to use only mysimpledomainname.com.
Your config for Project1 is OK. You just need to make available another directory under path /project2. To do this, you need to use the Alias directive.
So your final config should be something like this (of course you can have separate Directory configurations for each subdir if you want):
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin myemail#gmail.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/project1
Alias /project2 /var/www/html/project2
<Directory /var/www/html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
RewriteEngine On
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>