APACHE VirtualHost not working on older slackware machine

mtlhd · 01-25-2010, 04:09 PM

Hey all, I just spent the day trying to understand where I could have gone wrong...

I am trying to add a virtual host to my machine by name to the IP here.

It absolutely refuses to work.

it is a mess server I hope to upgrade soon, but it has 2 versions of apache running together on it.

The first one (php3) just proxies all the requests from 80 to 8080 which has another instance of apache running php5.

so, on APACHE 80's sites.conf, I have:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName hostheadererror.com
        ServerAdmin webmaster@mydomain.com
        DocumentRoot /home/me/www/nohostheader
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName www.newdomain.com
        ServerAlias newdomain.com *.newdomain.com
        ServerAdmin webmaster@olddomain.com
#       DocumentRoot /home/me/www/newdomain
        DocumentRoot /dev/null
        ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
</VirtualHost>

The sites.conf from the server it proxied to:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:8080>
        ServerName www.newdomain.com
        ServerAlias newdomain.com *.newdomain.com
        ServerAdmin webmaster@olddomain.com
        DocumentRoot /home/me/www/newdomain
</VirtualHost>

I don't know what else to do, it keeps defaulting to the host header error virtual host.

Thanks in advance

Elemecca · 01-25-2010, 09:25 PM

You don't need to (and probably shouldn't) specify a DocumentRoot in a VirtualHost that's only proxying. Also, you'll probably want to add a ProxyPassReverse directive.

Does your new server have an identical Host error VirtualHost? mod_proxy in reverse proxy mode by default passes the configured target URL as Host. In your case, the server on 8080 would see "Host: localhost:8080" instead of "Host: www.newdomain.com". If this isn't what you want, see the ProxyPreserveHost directive.

You may also find the mod_proxy documentation useful.