Hey guys, I have been searching for hours to try and find a way to get this to work, but I've had no success.

When I get stuck with something, I never go straight to a forum and ask for help, I actually enjoy trying to figure things out for myself, but this one really has me stumped.

I'm running a Debian Etch server, with Apache2 installed as a webserver. All I want is the ability to have subdomains.

EG, http://servername directs to /var/www/ and then http://php.servername directs to /var/www/phpmyadmin/

Im running Apache2, so my virtual host file is located at /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.



If I go to http://servername it's correct, and shows the contents of /var/www/ but if I go to http://php.servername it just times out.

The probablem has nothing to do with phpmyadmin, because I have tried other directories and it still times out.

Below is the important part of it.

Can anybody see why this does not work?



Thanks in advance,
Josh.

I'm no expert, but will speculate that php.localhost has no specific meaning without some kind of DNS entry.

When I set up a subdomain on one of my servers (albeit for the Internet rather than localhost), I have to add a corresponding A record for that domain in its DNS record.

I'm guessing you have to do something similar locally to tell the system what to do with php.localhost. Perhaps you can use /etc/hosts to do this (a guess on my part).

Thanks for the reply, I shall have a look into that now.

Anybody else have any ideas?



Thanks again,

Josh.

Sounds like you need an entry omin your /etc/hosts or full fleged DNS. What happens of you try to ping the server by this new name?

Thanks for the reply.

So you think that I'm going to have to set up a DNS server just to have subdomains? :/

And when I ping http://servername I get a response, but when I ping http://php.severname I do not.


I dont know if this is correct, but in my /etc/hosts file I added the line:




where 192.168.0.10 is the servers internal ip.

Thanks for your help,

Josh.

NameVirtualHost 192.168.70.200:80

<VirtualHost redirect.domain.com:80>

ServerName redirect.domain.com
ServerAdmin postmaster@domain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/losers100"

ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/redirect.domain-error_log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/redirect.domain-access_log" common

<Directory />
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.html
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/losers100>
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>


<VirtualHost a-new-sobdamain.domain.com:80>
ServerName a-new-sobdamain.domain.com
ServerAdmin postmaster@domain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/losers200"

ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/a-new-sobdamain.domain-error_log"
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/a-new-sobdamain.domain-access_log" common

<Directory />
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/losers200>
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<IfModule alias_module>

Include /etc/httpd/aliases

</IfModule>

</VirtualHost>


and you have to edit zone file for BIND to allow subdomains

ns IN A IP
www IN A IP
webmail IN A IP
mail IN A IP
a-new-sobdamain IN A IP

And did that work?

Below my /etc/hosts on the client

Thanks for your help guys.

I managed to get a subdomain working by adding a few entries to my clients host file. However, the subdomain is not redirecting properly.

A snippet of my virtual host file:



So now http://servername and http://home.servername are both accessable, but http://home.servername directs to /var/www/live even though is should direct to /var/www/home/

Does anybody know why this is happening?


Thanks again,
Josh.

This is how I do the configuration.
the diference is that you use * for any ip address.

<VirtualHost ipaddress1.1.1.1>
DocumentRoot /home/where/www
ServerName www.domain.com
</VirtualHost>


Some test i did when it fails , change the default domain home's directory, and see if it all the domains change to this , maybe you need to check you dns info.

Also you can try using the logs for each site , and see if the acces is for the right site .

LogLevel emerg
CustomLog /home/log/acces.log "combined"