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Hello

I'm using Debian - testing (3.1), as a webserver.

I'm having some problems with setting up virtualhosts under apache2. I can't seem to find any documentation (no man pages & the README isn't very helpful) to set up new virtualhosts using Debian's system for virtualhosts. Are you supposed to use the standard apache directives for setting up virtualhosts? If you are then what have I missed?

I get the following error message from apache2 when stopping and starting:

[Mon Oct 11 18:07:48 2004] [error] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: Cannot resolve host name newVhost --- ignoring!

This is the syntax in /var/apache2/sites-available/newVhost

I have created a directory /var/www/newVhost and put an index.html file in it.

Code:

NameVirtualHost newVhost

<VirtualHost newVhost>

        ServerAdmin admin@newVhost



        DocumentRoot /var/www/newVhost

        <Directory />

                Options FollowSymLinks

                AllowOverride None

        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/newVhost>

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride None

                Order allow,deny

                allow from all

                # This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page

                # in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place

                # RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/

        </Directory>



        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">              

                AllowOverride None

                Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

                Order allow,deny

                Allow from all

        </Directory>



        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log



        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

        # alert, emerg.

        LogLevel warn



        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

        ServerSignature On



        Alias /icons/ "/usr/share/apache2/icons/"

        <Directory "/usr/share/apache2/icons">

            Options Indexes MultiViews

            AllowOverride None

            Order allow,deny

            Allow from all

        </Directory>

Anyone able help?

Thanks

Matt