Hi John,
I think the described behaviour is normal.
Apache makes a lookup whether it has a vhost with the requested
hostname, if not it delivers the document root of the first vhost loaded
which on Debian based systems (including Ubuntu) this conf file is
"000-default" (the files are loaded via numeric ordering, hence the
"000" to safeguard that this file is loaded first). You should not
change the setup by your OS, read the documentation to understand the
symlinking.
If you want to change this behavior, you could adapt your default.conf
with a RewriteRule using wild-card -mappings.
Untested (you should'nt try this out on a productive server, please test
first)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*mysite-1.com$
RewriteRule /(.*) http://www.mysite-1.com/$1
Or you could display a "Oops"-site if the given hostname is not
configured in the default-directory and give the user a hint that he had
made a typo.
Kind regards,
Tobias Adolph
Am 21.07.2015 um 20:12 schrieb John Fisher GM:
We're running Apache 2.2 on Debian 7 (Wheezy). We run approximately 24
vhosts, mostly small sites but also one large site. Some sites are
Drupal, some are Wordpress and some are handcoded going back to 1995.
Our structure generally is:
/home
/home/mysite-1/public_html/index.html
/home/mysite-2/public_html/index.html
/home/mysite-3/public_html/index.html
and so on...
We prefer this structure rather than the Debian norm /var/www
Here's the problem(s):
On all of the sites calls to "mysite-1.com/index.html" works properly.
Things also work with the cname "www" as that is explicitly defined as
"ServerAlias www.mysite-1.com" in the vhost file under
sites-available. So calls to "www.mysite-1.com/index.html" also work.
But when someone mistypes the URL, things go wrong.
For example, typing ww1.mysite-1.com takes us to the /home directory,
up two levels and displays a directory listing of everything under /home.
I made a quick fix by adding a dummy file at /home/index.html
Without that plug, a directory of all sites under /home displays,
allowing access to files above the public_html directory on all our
sites.
But even with the /home/index.html file, one can just type a URL such as:
http://ww1.mysite-1.com/mysite-2/ and view anything in
mysite-2 above public_html.
I probably could restrict directory access using .htaccess, but I'd
prefer to find the cause of the issue.
I spent some time simplifying the files under "sites-available" to
remove anything that might cause these errors. (hence my questions
yesterday about /share/doc and cgi-bin).
I considered that the problem might have been something in the
apache2.conf file. But I looked closely there and found nothing.
I suspect the problem is in the "sites-available/default" vhost file
and the symlink "/sites-enabled/000-default" and might have to do with
our changing the /var/www entry to /home.
Is the default file and 000-default symlink needed? If so, why is that?
But I could use some guidance on all this.
Here's a typical vhost file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName mysite-1.com
ServerAlias www.mysite-1.com
DocumentRoot /home/mysite-1/public_html/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /home/mysite-1/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mysite-1.error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mysite-1.access.log combined
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error,
crit, alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
</VirtualHost>
and here is the default file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /home/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /home/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
Allowoverride Indexes
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</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 ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error,
crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
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>
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