Greetings everyone,

Okay here is my situation. Im confused with what i have read and am look for clarification. I am using Apache and NameVirutalHost so that i can host a few of my own domains. I am using Mandrake 10.1 Official just so i am clear.

I have read about how to enter your NameVirutalHost entried into the vhosts.conf file. But i am having problems when i have more than one entry. For example

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName test1.com
ServerAlias www.test1.com
ServerPath /test1
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/test1
DirectoryIndex default.php
ServerAdmin info@domain.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName test2.com
ServerAlias www.test2.com
ServerPath /test2
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/test2
DirectoryIndex default.php
ServerAdmin info@domain2.com
</VirtualHost>

From what i read i need to make these intries into the vhost.conf file right? On a pevious apache version (redhat #?) all i did was edit the httpd.conf file. Has things changed? Please help

I also read my httpd.conf file on my mandrake box (the one im using right now and it only seems to look at this statement

Include conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf

Is this where i should have multiple vhost.conf files entered into my httpd.conf file so that it knows to look for these named virtual hosts?

Please advise ...i really need the help. Im a Newbie (groan)

At least with Apache 1.3, you can (should?) have your virtual hosts declaration in the httpd.conf file. Have a look there, even if you are using Apache 2 since the httpd.conf file gives examples of the input it expects. If you find a virtual hosts example in httpd.conf, you should be able to add your servers there.

This is all that my httpd says


###
### Virtual Hosts
###
# We include different templates for Virtual Hosting. Have a look in the
# vhosts directory and modify to suit your needs.
Include conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf
#Include conf/vhosts/DynamicVhosts.conf
#Include conf/vhosts/VirtualHomePages.conf



This is what the vhost.conf says


################# IP-based Virtual Hosts
#<VirtualHost 192.168.2.100>
#User jmdault
#Group jmdault
#DocumentRoot /home/jmdault/public_html
#ServerName test2.com
#Setenv VLOG /home/jmdault/logs
#ErrorLogs /home/jmdault/test2-error_log
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteOptions inherit
#</VirtualHost>

################# Named VirtualHosts
#NameVirtualHost 111.222.33.44
#<VirtualHost 111.222.33.44>
#ServerName www.domain.tld
#ServerPath /domain
#DocumentRoot /web/domain
#</VirtualHost>


I should also point out

PHP VERSION: 4.3.8 (apache2handler), SQL: (MYSQL) 4.0.20

Well, after looking at the Apache documentation , it looks as if either approach, httpd.conf or vhosts.conf is acceptable. The sections on name-based virtual hosting give examples modifying httpd.conf, but if you look in the core modules section, it gives and example of using the include module to add other configuration files. I've succesfully used name-based virtual hosting by modifying my httpd.conf with Apache 1.3, and the documentation for 2.0 still suggests httpd.conf. If vhosts.conf is giving you a problem, I'd just go with modifying httpd.conf and comment out the include vhosts.conf statment.