Apache httpd.conf <VirtualHost> issue

Spetnik · #1 (**permalink**) 07-01-2003

I have just configured httpd.conf on a new Redhat 9 install. Below are my additions to httpd.conf. Everything works fine except that when typing http://spetnik.d2g.com into my web browser, I am sent to the "Default catch all" site. Any clues?

Code:

NameVirtualHost *:80

#Default catch all 
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin aspetner@spetnik.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
    ErrorDocument 404 /errors/notfound.html
</VirtualHost>

#spetnik.d2g.com
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName spetnik.d2g.com
    ServerAlias spetnik.d2g.com www.spetnik.d2g.com
    ServerAdmin aspetner@spetnik.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/spetnik/html/
    ErrorDocument 404 /errors/notfound.html
    TransferLog logs/spetnik

    <Directory /var/www/spetnik/html>
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

#e-feedback.org
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName e-feedback.org
    ServerAlias e-feedback.org www.e-feedback.org
    ServerAdmin e-feedback@spetnik.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/e-feedback/html
    ErrorDocument 404 /errors/notfound.html
    TransferLog logs/e-feedback

    <Directory /var/www/e-feedback/html>
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Thanks,
Aaron

oombera · #2 (**permalink**) 07-01-2003

I assume that's your website then... you need to create the webpage you want users to see when they visit your website - create a basic html file and name it "index.html" and place it in the main directory of your site, probably /var/www/html/.

Spetnik · #3 (**permalink**) 07-01-2003

I don't think you understand. Both e-feedback.org and www.e-feedback.org display the index.html file from /var/www/e-feedback/html. www.spetnik.d2g.com also displays /var/www/spetnik/html/index.html, but if I take out the www (just spetnik.d2g.com), I get the catch all directory (/var/www/html).

oombera · #4 (**permalink**) 07-01-2003

Now I see what you're saying..

Looking at the documentation, I can't figure out what's wrong, but I'm sure someone else will know.

RTM · #5 (**permalink**) 07-01-2003

In your first virtual host, you specify your domain as spetnik.d2g.com. I don't have a way to test this, but to my way of thinking, this would be a host.domain.com. (Your other one works because it is has only a domain - e-feedback.org )

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName spetnik.d2g.com
ServerAlias spetnik.d2g.com www.spetnik.d2g.com
ServerAdmin aspetner@spetnik.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/spetnik/html/

Part of the documentation states:

Quote:

Many servers want to be accessible by more than one name. This is possible with the ServerAlias directive, placed inside the <VirtualHost> section. For example if you add this to the first <VirtualHost> block above

ServerAlias domain.tld *.domain.tld
then requests for all hosts in the domain.tld domain will be served by the www.domain.tld virtual host.

Since you probably can't change servername to d2g.com, try the following instead (found in the FAQ section of Apache's documentation):

Quote:

There are two techniques to implement canonical hostnames:

Use mod_rewrite as described in the "Canonical Hostnames" section of the URL Rewriting Guide.
Use name-based virtual hosting:
NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.example.net
ServerAlias example.com
Redirect permanent / http://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs
</VirtualHost>

Worth a shot, anyway.

Spetnik · #6 (**permalink**) 07-01-2003

Nevermind, I figured it out. I had "ServerName spetnik.d2g.com:80" set at the top of my httpd.conf file. I changed it to "ServerName linuxsrv:80" (linuxsrv is the machine name) and it now works fine.

Thanx for the help anyway

.

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