apache virtual host help?

paddyjoy · 09-18-2006, 06:30 PM

Hi,

I'm trying to set up some virtual hosts on apache, currently I have it working with http://mydomain.com but not with http://www.mydomain.com. Does anyone have any idea why this could be causing a problem?

I presume I need two virtual hosts, one for mydomain.com and one for www.mydomain.com?

Code:

<VirtualHost mydomain.com:80>
DocumentRoot /home/mydomain.com/html
SuexecUserGroup "#500" "#500"
ErrorLog /var/www/error/error_log
CustomLog /var/www/error/access_log common
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
<Directory /home/mydomain.com/html>
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost www.mydomain.com:80>
DocumentRoot /home/mydomain.com/html
SuexecUserGroup "#500" "#500"
ErrorLog /var/www/error/error_log
CustomLog /var/www/error/access_log common
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
<Directory /home/mydomain.com/html>
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

w3bd3vil · 09-18-2006, 07:48 PM

thats a dns setting problem. check with your domain name settings.

paddyjoy · 09-19-2006, 03:45 AM

dns settings seem to be fine, both mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com point to the correct IP address. Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Paddy

trickykid · 09-19-2006, 05:38 AM

You don't necessarily need to setup two virtual hosts, just add the ServerAlias option in your config...

ServerAlias www.mydomain.com

Of if you want anything typed before the domain, a common way to do this would be:

ServerAlias *.mydomain.com

paddyjoy · 09-19-2006, 05:49 AM

Finally got it working, firefox had cached my index.php files for each domain from earlier today when my httpd.conf file was incorrect. That's why it appeared I was getting the wrong site, cleared the cache and everything is fine now!

Thanks for the tip about Server Alias.

Paddy