I am posting this "fix" in the hope it helps others. I have no idea why this happens.
In my local development environment I use /etc/hosts and an apache vhost file to set up domainname.local. This situation was a long domain name where the business name begins with the letters "the". I altered the /etc/hosts file. Copied a working vhost file. Altered the vhost file. I used the entry thedomainname.local. I expected to go to the root directory where I am developing. I got the default root of the dev box. apachectl -S syntax OK apachectl -t the vhost domain was in the list as it should be. I altered the logs files to a special one and it was created as required. No entries at all, ever. In desperation I altered the /etc/hosts file and the ServerName to: domainname.local. That was the only alteration. All working. I have absolutely no idea why this works. Hopefully it may help others. Regards, Ashley Maher
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