[vox-tech] apache question: virtualhost not working

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Sun 11 Apr 04,  1:49 PM, Ken Bloom <kabloom@ucdavis.edu> said:
> 
> On 2004.04.11 13:18, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >On Sun 11 Apr 04,  9:40 AM, Henry House <hajhouse@houseag.com> said:
> >> På söndag, 11 april 2004, skrev Rod Roark:
> >> > On Sunday 11 April 2004 07:04 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >> > ...
> >> > >    NameVirtualHost 64.142.25.39:80
> >> > >
> >> > >    <VirtualHost www.liberal.ws:80>
> >> > >       ServerAdmin p@dirac.org
> >> > >       DocumentRoot /home/p/linux
> >> > >       ServerName www.liberal.ws
> >> > >       ErrorLog /var/log/apache/test_error
> >> > >       LogLevel warn
> >> > >       CustomLog /var/log/apache/test_access common
> >> > >    </VirtualHost>
> >> >
> >> > What works for me looks like this:
> >> >
> >> >    NameVirtualHost 64.142.25.39
> >> >    <VirtualHost 64.142.25.39:80>
> >> >       etc.
> >>
> >> Rod is right; you need the NameVirtualHost directive when virtual hosts
> >share
> >> the same IP address (i.e., there are multiple DNS A records for your  
> >the
> >IP
> >> address of your server, or there are CNAME records giving it additional
> >> names).
> >
> >i'm confused -- isn't that what i have above?
> >
> >i have two domains, www.dirac.org and www.liberal.ws.  i want:
> >
> >   www.dirac.org  -> document root /www
> >   www.liberal.ws -> document root /www/p/linux
> >
> >www.dirac.org already works.  it's configured correctly.  in order to
> >add www.liberal.ws, i tried adding this:
> >
> >
> >    NameVirtualHost 64.142.25.39:80
> >
> >    <VirtualHost www.liberal.ws:80>
> >       ServerAdmin p@dirac.org
> >       DocumentRoot /home/p/linux
> >       ServerName www.liberal.ws
> >       ErrorLog /var/log/apache/test_error
> >       LogLevel warn
> >       CustomLog /var/log/apache/test_access common
> >    </VirtualHost>
> >
> >is that not correct?
> >
> >pete
> 
> I'm no apache expert here, (I don't even run apache), but isn't rod saying  
> you should be saying the following in your apache configuration:
> 
> NameVirtualHost 64.142.25.39:80
> <VirtualHost 64.142.25.39:80>
>   ServerAdmin p@dirac.org
>   DocumentRoot /home/p/linux
>   ServerName www.liberal.ws
>   ErrorLog /var/log/apache/test_error
>   LogLevel warn
>   CustomLog /var/log/apache/test_access common
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> And that the hostname is given on the line starting "ServerName"
> 
> (And now that I've been poking around for information on this to see for  
> myself what the difference is, you can see as sample configuration at  
> http://www.phpfreaks.com/apache_manual/page/vhosts/name-based.html)
 

doesn't work.  my dirac.org configs were "global".  not within a
virtualhost stanza.  the www.liberal.ws stuff was inside a virtualhost
stanza.

after weeing lewis's conf file, i figured i'd try to make my conf file
look more like his: both dirac.org and liberal.ws inside virtualhost
stanzas.


this gave 404's on both domains:

<VirtualHost 64.142.25.39>
   ServerAdmin p@dirac.org
   DocumentRoot /www/p/linux
   ServerName www.liberal.ws
   ServerAlias liberal.ws
   ErrorLog /var/log/apache/test_error
   LogLevel warn
   CustomLog /var/log/apache/test_access common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 64.142.25.39>
   ServerAdmin p@dirac.org
   DocumentRoot /www
   ServerName www.dirac.org
   ServerAlias dirac.org
   ErrorLog /var/log/apache/error.log
   LogLevel warn
   CustomLog /var/log/apache/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>


However, this set documentroot to both dirac.org and liberal.ws:

 
<VirtualHost www.liberal.ws>
   ServerAdmin p@dirac.org
   DocumentRoot /www/p/linux
   ServerName www.liberal.ws
   ServerAlias liberal.ws
   ErrorLog /var/log/apache/test_error
   LogLevel warn
   CustomLog /var/log/apache/test_access common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost www.dirac.org>
   ServerAdmin p@dirac.org
   DocumentRoot /www
   ServerName www.dirac.org
   ServerAlias dirac.org
   ErrorLog /var/log/apache/error.log
   LogLevel warn
   CustomLog /var/log/apache/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>


oi.  this is not fun.      :-(

pete