Hi,

I have set up Apache for the LAN. Every thing is working fine...except that when an 404 error occurs for the first virtual host, apache redirects it to the home page of the first virtual host. However for other virtual hosts, it does not happen like that and works perfectly the way it shud work (giving a Not Found 404 error message).

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.21>
ServerAdmin whatever@whatever.net
DocumentRoot /home/john
ServerName TestServer
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/john/cgi-bin/
ErrorLog logs/error.log
TransferLog logs/john.log
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.22>
ServerAdmin whatever@whatever.net
DocumentRoot /home/johnnie
ServerName TestServer
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/johnnie/cgi-bin/
ErrorLog logs/error.log
TransferLog logs/johnnie.log
</VirtualHost>

...
So whenever i type something like http://192.168.1.21/doesnotexist.html - it redirects me to the home page for 192.168.1.21
Also the Document Root is set to /home ( incase that helps ) and i m running 1.3.x under FreeBSD 4.10...


Thanks for the reply in Advance,
SiLiCoN

Are both these virtual hosts on the same machine where you have two IP's with two NIC's in place? If your wanting to redirect to another machine behind your firewall using only one public IP address so it redirects to the other virtual host hosted on the second machine, you have to do something like this:

And you can't have two virtual hosts with the same ServerName.. that's probably one reason the second one keeps going back to the first.. etc.

I have a similar problem.

I have setup 2 virtual hosts, looks something like this:
<VirtualHost myIP:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html

ServerAdmin myemail@server.com
ServerName mydomain.com

ServerAlias www.mydomain.com

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml

<Directory "/var/www/html">
AllowOverride all
</Directory>

LogLevel debug
HostNameLookups off

</VirtualHost>

# Virtual host development
<VirtualHost myIP:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/develop/

ServerAdmin mymail@mail.com
ServerName develop.mydomain.com

<Directory "/var/www/develop/">
AllowOverride all
</Directory>

LogLevel debug
HostNameLookups off

</VirtualHost>
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When I go to develop.mydomain.com, I get the index page of my first VHost at the /var/www/html directory, as opposed to the /var/www/develop directory.

I have only one IP, but it should make no difference how many IPs I have as long as Apache is set to look for the URL.

hi trickykid,

Thanks for the reply...I have just one NIC (aliased from 192.168.1.21- 192.168.1.25). Virtual hosts from 192.168.1.22 - 192.168.1.25 are working fine...just that the first virtual host (which is also the actual ip of the NIC) i'e' 192.168.1.21 does not give me a NOT found (404 error) instead it redirects me to the home page of 192.168.1.21....And yes all of the 5 virtual hosts are in the same machine.

Regards,
SiLiCoN

Hi ApachePadowan,

Is the DNS working fine, try doing a dig or nslookup on www.mydomain.com and develop.mydomain.com and see if they point to the place u r trying to point. (which i guess is working fine otherwise it would have given a not found message).
Since its a NameVirtual host, put a NameVirtualHost <YOUR_IP> statement just before the two virtual host statement and i guess things will work out fine.
What i mean is - your virtual host declaration should be

NameVirtualHost YOUR_IP

<VirtualHost YOUR_IP>
...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost YOUR_IP>
...
</VirtualHost>


Regards,
SiLiCoN

Thanks, SiLiCon... What I actually did to get it to work was as simple as replacing my IP with a *... Working just fine now...