Apache virtual hosts behind a router??

pdeman2 · 03-09-2006, 07:53 PM

I've been hosting a website from my computer for a while now, and all has gone well. Now, I need to add another website. I'm not sure I understand much about virtual hosts.

My computer is connected to the internet through a router. That router currently forwards anything on port 80 to my computer (192.168.0.100). I have two registered domain names that I want to use (one for each website), both domain names are currently connected to my router's IP address. I've read about IP aliasing, but I don't know how to use that when I'm behind a router. How should I go about setting this up?

gilead · 03-09-2006, 08:05 PM

If you already have one domain name set up (through a ddns provider like http://www.dyndns.com/?) and the requests are being forwarded to your web server through your router, then you're most of the way there.

It sounds like your second domain is already pointing at your IP address, so your router will forward the request to your web server. However, your web server won't recognise the domain so the best you'd get at this point is the default web page - or just an error.

Apache's virtual hosts can handle this situation. I have several domains on one of my boxes configured initially from the docs at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/. As long as you don't need multiple https sites on one IP address everything you need is either there or at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/name-based.html.

rjcrews · 03-09-2006, 08:15 PM

My Vhosts.conf file, this may help:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.yyy.com
ServerAlias yyy.com *.yyy.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ErrorLog logs/yyy.com-error_log
TransferLog logs/yyy.com-access_log
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.xxx.com
ServerAlias xxx.com *.xxx.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/xxx
ErrorLog logs/xxx.com-error_log
TransferLog logs/xxx.com-access_log
</VirtualHost>

pdeman2 · 03-09-2006, 09:19 PM

Okay, the virtual hosts seem to be pointing to the directory, but now I have another problem. Since I've added this new website, I'm having authentication problems. I've looked through my httpd.conf and I created a new password file. Authentication works for one website, but not the other.

routers · 03-09-2006, 09:46 PM

this is my <VirtualHost> sample , i think u can figure out how to add more than one site on the system

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName rou.homelinux.net
ServerAdmin noc@rou.homelinux.net
DocumentRoot /export/site/noc/www
TransferLog /export/site/noc/logs/access-log
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /export/site/noc/www/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName fm.homelinux.net
ServerAdmin fm@fm.homelinux.net
DocumentRoot /export/site/fm/www
TransferLog /export/site/fm/logs/access-log
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /export/site/fm/www/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

pdeman2 · 03-09-2006, 10:03 PM

Thanks, routers, but as I wrote in my last post, the virtual host setup is working good, but now authentication is not working correctly

routers · 03-09-2006, 10:10 PM

ok see example
1st domain
DocumentRoot /export/site/noc/www

2nd domain
DocumentRoot /export/site/fm/www

place it in user home directory i think this will solve "authentication"

noc and fm is diffrent user , see my etc/passwd

noc:x:1001:100:noc,,,:/export/site/noc:/usr/bin/passwd
fm:x:1003:100:freeman,,,:/export/site/fm:/usr/bin/passwd

gilead · 03-09-2006, 10:49 PM

What is your set up for the directories requiring it on the virtual host that isn't working? I usually have something like the following:

Code:

<Directory "/var/www/html/attach">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  IndexOptions FancyIndexing FoldersFirst IgnoreCase VersionSort NameWidth=*
  AllowOverride None
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Attachments"
  AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache2/passwd/passwords
  Require user guest
</Directory>

pdeman2 · 03-10-2006, 06:36 AM

Well, I'm at school right now, so I cant really post anything from conf files or any thing, but hear is what one of my directory setups looks like:

Code:

<Directory /srv/www/htdocs/>
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "SuSE Server"
  AuthUserFile /srvpass/apache2/.passwords
  Require user user
</Directory>

This isn't exactly what I have, but it is very similar.

pdeman2 · 03-10-2006, 02:30 PM

Alright, I figured it out, I was doing something stupid. I was using htpasswd2 -c for each new user I was adding. Every time I added someone new, the passwd file was recreated.

Everything is working fine now. Thanks for the help everyone.