On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:18 PM, J. Greenlees <li...@jaqui-greenlees.net> wrote:
> I tried specifying the name in the NameVirtualHost for 3 domains. > [ one entry per domain, naturally. ] It was only by using the *.:80 in > the NameVirtualHost directive, and only having the one NameVirtualHost > for multiple vhosts that the error went away. You could have found this out by reading the manual too :-) It is _by design_ that name based virtual hosts works this way. The "NameVirtualHost" directive tells the apache daemon on what IP address/port combination it should handle requests for multiple, named based virtual hosts. The most usual way this is used is by specifying NameVirtualHost *:80. You do not normally use names here, unless you have several IP adresses associated with your machine, and want to distinguish between them using a name, and not an IP. When a request arrives on a IP/port combination mentioned in a NameVirtualHost directive the server will next look at <VirtualHost> blocks that match the NameVirtualHost directive. And the first block where the "Servname" directive matches the "host" header in the HTTP request will be used. If none match the first <VirtualHost> will be used. You normally would have <VirtualHost> blocks that look like this: <VirtualHost *:80> Servername foo.com </VirtualHost> Putting the servhostname in the <VirtualHost> tag itself does not cause apache to match requests to this hostname to this block, as in the value inside the <VirtualHost> tag is only used to match against a NameVirtualHost statement... Krist -- krist.vanbes...@gmail.com kr...@vanbesien.org Bremgarten b. Bern, Switzerland -- A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation. Q: What's wrong with top-posting? A: Top-posting. Q: What's the biggest scourge on plain text email discussions? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
