[SOLVED] Apache VirtualHost Not Working

psoheil · 06-23-2012, 05:36 PM

Hello All,

I have a CentOS 6 Server where I am attempting to configure VirtualHost. Here is what I have:

Default Server:
Address: Any
Port: Any
Server Name: Automatic
Document Root: /var/www/html

Virtual Server SSL:
Address: Any
Port: 443
Server Name: Automatic
Document Root: /var/www/html

Virtual Server 1:
Address: Any
Port: 80
Server Name: home.domainname.com
Document Root: /home/home.domainname.com/www/

The first two come out of box. The problem is as soon as I add "Virtual Server 1" information the server defaults it to "Default Server" and does not show anything in the "home/home.domainname.com/www/" directory. Here is the contents of the "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" file:

Code:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /home/home.domainname.com/www/
ServerName home.jetsupport.com
<Directory "/home/home.domainname.com/www/">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Does anyone know what may be causing the issue?

Thanks,
Pete

psoheil · 06-23-2012, 09:46 PM

Found the answer elsewhere. It looks like CentOS as shipped will expect directories to be served by apache to reside under /var/www and if they are not then selinux will get very unhappy and deny access to the files. Copying the virtual directory to the location specified resolved the problem.

The interesting part is that on our other server which is a Fedora 16 server it allows us to have the directory in "/home/sitename" just fine, but it seems that CentOS is indeed very picky about having the directory in "/var/www/sitename".

Thanks,
Pete