okay. we're trying to use <perl> to configure virtual hosts -- here's Data::Dumper showing the %VirtualHost hash:
%VirtualHost = { '*:80' => [ { 'PerlSetVar' => [ 'SiteName', 'one' ], 'Directory' => { '/var/www/one' => { 'Options' => [ '+Indexes', ], 'FilesMatch' => { '^[A-Z]|\\.mc$' => { 'SetHandler' => 'perl-script', 'PerlResponseHandler' => 'Apache::NOT_FOUND' }, '\\.(html|css)$' => { 'SetHandler' => 'defaulthandler' } } } }, 'ServerName' => 'one', 'DocumentRoot' => '/var/www/one', 'ServerAlias' => [ 'five', 'seven' ] }, { 'PerlSetVar' => [ 'SiteName', 'three' ], 'Directory' => { '/var/www/three' => { 'Options' => [ '+Indexes', ], 'FilesMatch' => { '^[A-Z]' => { 'SetHandler' => 'perl-script', 'PerlHandler' => 'Apache::NOT_FOUND' }, '\\.(html|css)$' => { 'SetHandler' => 'defaulthandler' } } } }, 'ServerName' => 'three', 'DocumentRoot' => '/var/www/three' } ] }; site "one" has aliases "five" and "seven"; site "three" is on its own. (we're testing, see -- /etc/hosts has all these names as aliases for "localhost".) when trying to use this config, apache2 belches NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts we'd love to know why. pointers are very welcome! === what search terms could we use at google to get pertinent results? we've tried apache2 'has no virtualhosts' and see lots of questions similar to ours, but no definitive answer has crossed our radar just yet... we also found the source code to "vhost.c" -- and the error message comes from function "remove_unused_name_vhosts()" which heavily implies that when the error message shows up, the vhost goes away... except when we browse to http://three/ or http://five/ we get the site we originally expect; when we visit one of the two aliases, tho, we get the uber-root (/var/www instead of /var/www/one). so now we're more confused than ever. :) ==== hey! not knowing even enough to dig a deep hole, looking at remove_unused_name_vhosts() we see *pic = ic->next; and later *pic = &ic->next; is the ampersand superfluous? is this a typo? -- will trillich mayhugh services 812 423 6314 voice 812 423 6303 fax -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html