I am attempting to set up a server in gentoo with apache (I previously had it working on a windows machine, but am migrating it to a linux machine in attempt to save headache). I have followed the setup instructions on the gentoo wiki to set up apache for virtual hosts. I put a website on this host (mclinkor.mit.edu (18.248.3.123)), and can view it from the local machine, but I cannot view it from other machines. I have not assigned DNS servers, but I'm not sure if that matters (since I can access the internet on the server machine), but I when I was given my static ip, they gave me DNS servers, so maybe this is important. Is there anything else I have to do security-wise to open up gentoo to allow other computers to access apache? Thanks.

- Ryan

By default, the server root is in /var/www/localhost/htdocs
vhost definitions will also be in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d and are read in numeric order.

ADDED: I suppose I should ask which version of apache you have installed..

The server accesses ok on the ip number, so the default server is working ok.

What have you used to define the url host?

Apache version 2.0.54

Here's my vhost file

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mclinkor.mit.edu
DocumentRoot "/hosted_sites/mclinkor"
</VirtualHost>

[and the appropriate ones for 127.0.0.1]

What do you mean by what I have used to define the url host?

Thanks.

That's the default host.. *:80

You need a host with the url name you want to access the vhost with, eg www.some.thing.com
eg,

/etc/apache2/vhost.d/00_default_vhost.conf reads as above

/etc/apache2/vhost.d/10_www.mclinkor.mit.edu.conf reads;
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mclinkor.mit.edu
DocumentRoot hosted_sites/mclinkor
</VirtualHost>

OK, I made those changes, but it still doesn't work.

This has solved the problem of it not saying "NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts"

Note that my address is http://mclinkor.mit.edu, not www.mclinkor.mit.edu

Ok so you will need to have..

in /etc/apache2/vhost.d/10_mclinkor.mit.edu.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mclinkor.mit.edu
DocumentRoot hosted_sites/mclinkor
</VirtualHost>

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing.

Unfortunately, still no dice.

Are there any other security permissions that gentoo generally sets up? Like, a does a basic stage3 install include any kind of firewall or anything that I need to configure?

So I eventually got this working (since I was stupid and forgot to restart net.eth0 after making some changes there and fixing the above errors.

Now I have a new problem.

I have two static ip addresses that I have configured in net file. I have these connected to hostnames. The old ip address works fine (and links to the three virtual hosts perfectly).

I have another static ip, however which links to another virtual host, which I can only see on the local computer (which seems like the problem I was having before, but the fixes don't work for it).

Basically, to go from one static ip to two, I changed things like *:80 to 18.248.3.137:80.

Is there something else I am missing regarding setting up multiple ip addresses (or maybe I forgot to do something that I did to set-up my original ip, but I've looked back over what I did for that and it hasn't helped).

Thanks.

Have a look at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/
Especially the section about split routing and multiple gateways.

OK, I fixed the problem.

I used the first method, rather than the second, to set up my ip addresses as described here:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_IP_Aliasing