I run RH 8.0 and have tried everything to get name based virtual hosting working. I've read countless HOWTOs, a book on Apache... you name it. Here's the pertinent portions of my (latest) httpd.conf file:

Listen 80

ServerName 1.2.3.4:80

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@domain1.org
ServerAlias *.domain1.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain1
ServerName domain1.org
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@domain2.com
ServerAlias *.domain2.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain2
ServerName domain2.com
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</VirtualHost>

There is no default document set up, and you know the best part? It doesn't seem to matter if I change the order of the virtual hosts. Domain1.org *always* shows up first.

Hi,

I had this problem when starting out with apache! Its really very frustrating... However, if my memory serves me correctly I have a solution for you. You need to change your configuration to the following:

I hope that helps you/solves your problem, as that is similar to what I am using, and I am running about 10 virtual hosts.

Thanks for the reply, but that didn't work. Now I get the Apache Test Page for both domains.

I've seriously tried several different variants in using the IP, using the domain name, and using * in the NameVirtualHost directive, as well as using/dropping the port number. I feel like I must have it set up correctly. I'm wondering at this point if there's some strange, undocumented feature that Red Hat imposed on us like they did with sendmail, where it would only accept mail from localhost until you changed it.

dontaylor2

Does Apache have permission to access /var/www/html/domain2 ?

By default Apache does'nt have permission to access any directories as below

<Directory />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

So you have to give Apache permission like this

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@domain2.com
ServerAlias *.domain2.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain2
ServerName domain2.com
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
<Directory "/var/www/html/domain2">
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Hope this helps

Pete

OKAY, that's got it! Thank you both VERY much. I've posted my final config below for posterity. I did end up removing the port numbers, but I also replaced the IP with *. I may eventually do some testing to see whether I can get it working with the actual IP too, but for now I'm just going to relax and enjoy the fact that it's working. =)

Thanks again!

- Don

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin webmaster@domain1.com
ServerAlias *.domain1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain1
ServerName domain1.com
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
<Directory "/var/www/html/domain1">
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin webmaster@domain2.org
ServerAlias *.domain2.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain2
ServerName domain2.org
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
<Directory "/var/www/html/domain2">
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

dontaylor2

You have no idea how long it took me to work this out on my own server and to this day I have never seen any documentation referring to it

Glad I could help

Pete

Glad you got it sorted. Its a very strange and frustrating thing this problem. When I had it I ended up just fiddling round with those directives until it worked!

Well done