Hello all, about two years ago I setup a LAMP server for a web design company. They wanted Plesk installed on a RH64 bit system. I setup Plesk, everything worked, and that was it. Fast forward two years later and Rackspace is no longer supporting RH64 bit. So the customer wants the same exact setup MINUS PLESK on a new server running CentOS5.

I setup LAMP and it worked. The problem is that on the old server he had a vhosts directory. I supposed Plesk changed httpd.conf to add a vhost so that this site could be seen. I tranfered all the var/www/html files from the old serverm including vhosts, but when I type the IP only the default Apache page comes up. I even used the old httpd.conf from the old server, but STILL the Apache page comes up.

What am I doing wrong? Can anyone help me?

Cipher7836,

I am running Apache 2.2.16...and the vhost information is located at /usr/local/apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. It sounds like you need to make sure that file is accessible from the /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf. There is a line in the /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf that looks like this:

# Virtual Hosts
#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

The include line would be un-commented in order for it to access the httpd-vhosts.conf in the extra directory. Your file structure may not be exactly like this, but this should be enough information that you could search through and find what you are looking for.

Good Luck.....

Thank you so much. I'm going to try it now.

I can't seem to find the file you're talking about in CentOS 5. I read that you have to configure vhosts in httpd.conf, which I did, and when I open the page I get "forbidden" even if I change the permissions to 777. What the heck am I doing wrong? Should I post the httpd.conf for you all to see? Or should I just quit, suck my thumb, and lie down in the fetal position?

Well, these pages should help https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/ which is linked from the RHEL5 admin manual http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...tualhosts.html (same for Centos).

Also, I think taking a look at the Apache error_log when that happens or even /var/log/messages may help get more detail.

This https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/examples.html implies that doing vhosts inside httpd.conf is fine.

So far everything works well, but I get the following error when clicking on http://www.foo.com/cron/calc_bw/



A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning

Message: fopen(/var/log/httpd/access_log) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied

Filename: cb/cron.php

Line Number: 52

Line 52 is looking for a log file that it has access to, and the permissions were set to 777 just to see if that would fix it. But no go. Any ideas??????

SELinux?

Any other ideas???

cipher7836,

here is an idea.... create the folder /etc/httpd/conf/extra with 755 permissions. Assuming you are using the RH package for your Apache server, /etc/httpd/conf should already exist. Create a file in your /etc/httpd/conf/extra folder with the text from the httpd-vhonsts.conf file below. This is an unedited copy of the virtual hosts configuration file. You will need to edit it according to your setup. Next, Edit this line in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

# Virtual hosts
#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

to look like this:

# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

After all permissions/ownership are set accordingly, and the configuration files are edited to represent your setup, restart the httpd service and you should be good.


httpd-vhosts.conf

# Virtual Hosts
#
# If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.

#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80

#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.
#

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/server1"
ServerName servername1
ServerAlias servername1
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log" common

<Directory "/var/www/html/*" >
# Options FollowSymLinks
# AllowOverride None
# Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/server2"
ServerName servername2
ServerAlias servername2
ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error_log"
CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>