Below is a discussion I had on a forum site with a member having vhost issues. We cleared the error messages from apachectl start/restart.
but now it seems that apache is not reading the vhost definitions at all. does anyone have any idea why this would be? [ yes, I did get it checked for proper locationfor the particular installation, that was my first thought. ] There isn't a rush, the person involved hasn't responded with any further information in a week, more it's just for my own education. :) Jaqui Hello, I've been struggling with this for weeks and haven't been able to get it working. Here's how it works: I have a friend who has a Ubuntu webserver running at http://brutongarden.org. Due to the instability of my website RightOnThruHere running on Dhost, I decided I'd try to move my site over to brutongarden. It's up to me to setup the virtual hosts. Here's what I've placed in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default: Code: <VirtualHost righton.ath.cx:80> ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ServerName righton.ath.cx ServerAlias righton.ath.cx *.righton.ath.cx rightonthruhere.ath.cx *.rightonthruhere.ath.cx DocumentRoot /var/www/righton/ <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/righton> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all # This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page # in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place # Commented out for Ubuntu #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/ </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. <Directory /var/www/righton> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all # This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page # in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place # Commented out for Ubuntu #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/ </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined ServerSignature Off Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" <Directory "/usr/share/doc/"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 </Directory> </VirtualHost> The same entry is also present in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. In httpd.conf, I have the following entry: Code: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName righton.ath.cx ServerAlias righton.ath.cx *.righton.ath.cx rightonthruhere.ath.cx DocumentRoot /var/www/righton/ </VirtualHost> But no matter how many times the webserver is rebooted, http://righton.ath.cx always goes to http://brutongarden.org, instead of my mirrored Right On Thru Here. Is there something I've done wrong, or another file that still needs editing? __________________ According to the default apache config file [ apache 2 ]: Code: ### Section 3: Virtual Hosts # # VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your # machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations # use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about # IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below. # # Please see the documentation at # <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/> # for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts. # # You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host # configuration. # # Use name-based virtual hosting. # #NameVirtualHost *:80 #Setenv VLOG # # VirtualHost example: # Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container. # The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known # server name. # #<VirtualHost *:80> # ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] # DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com # ServerName dummy-host.example.com # ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/dummy-host.example.com-error_log # CustomLog /var/log/httpd/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common #</VirtualHost> ################################################################################ # virtual hosts configuration section # Include virtual hosts, if any Include conf/vhosts.d/*.conf what this doesn't mention is that if you require ssl for your sites, you need to use ip based hosting, not name based. you cannot define multiple virtual hosts on one line, each host must be declared in it's own virtualhost container. the vh configuration location may be /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts.d/ so it might not be reading the configuration file. __________________ Thanks for the help, but there is no line that loads conf/vhosts.d/*.conf. In the virtual hosts section, it reads the following: Code: Include sites-enabled/* I tried moving the virtual host section into a separate file in sites-available, and then sym-linking it from sites-enabled. I then got the following error when I restarted Apache: Code: [Sun Sep 24 15:14:33 2006] [warn] The ScriptAlias directive in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/righton at line 46 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier ScriptAlias. So at least it's trying to load it, but I don't know what to do now. I tried commenting out the entry I had previously in httpd.conf, but that didn't help. __________________ Why do you have the following defined twice? both directory settings blocks below are duplicated in your vh container. that is needlessly complex, making it harder to see what could be wrong, if not the cause of the issues. Code: <Directory /var/www/righton> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all # This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page # in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place # Commented out for Ubuntu #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/ </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> __________________ Quote: Originally Posted by Jaqui Why do you have the following defined twice? both directory settings blocks below are duplicated in your vh container. that is needlessly complex, making it harder to see what could be wrong, if not the cause of the issues. Please forgive me! I'm still waking up. The errors went away, but it still doesn't work http://righton.ath.cx Jeff Henager: "If the average user can put a CD in and boot the system and follow the prompts, he can install and use Linux. If he can't do that simple task, he doesn't need to be around technology." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
