Hello:

I am experiencing a problem getting my virtual hosts to work properly. I am using Mandrake 10 / Apache 2X. I have several websites that I am trying to set up as Name Based and IP Based virtual hosts. No matter what I do, only the first virtual host listed in the Vhosts.conf file is the only one that comes up when I try to access my server. If I remark out the first host, then the next one in the list takes over. I am sure that this is a simple problem but it's got me stumped. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Michael

Post the part of the configuration that governs the virtual hosts and I might be able to help you out.

Here is what is in my Vhosts.conf file currently:

################# IP-based Virtual Hosts
<VirtualHost 192.168.X.XX>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/website 1
ServerName XXX.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions inherit
</VirtualHost>

################# Named VirtualHosts
NameVirtualHost 192.168.X.XX
<VirtualHost 192.168.X.XX>
ServerName www.website 2.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions inherit
ServerAdmin owners@website 2.com
ServerPath /website2
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/website2
</VirtualHost>

################# Named VirtualHosts
NameVirtualHost 192.168.X.XX
<VirtualHost 192.168.X.XX>
ServerName www.website3.net
ServerAdmin webmaster@website3.net
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions inherit
ServerPath /website3
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/website3
</VirtualHost>

################# Named VirtualHosts
NameVirtualHost localhost
<VirtualHost localhost>
ServerName www.website4.org
ServerAdmin webmaster@website4.org
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions inherit
ServerPath /website4
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/website4
ServerSignature Off
</VirtualHost>

################# Named VirtualHosts
NameVirtualHost localhost
<VirtualHost localhost>
ServerName www.website5.org
ServerAdmin gatekeeper@website5.org
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions inherit
ServerPath /paganways
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/website5
ServerSignature Off
</VirtualHost>

Thanks in advance for the help!!!!

Michael

here's what the virtual host section of my httpd.conf file looks like edited to remove real IP's etc...

The only thing I can see is that I don't have the NameVirtualHost in mine and my name based works fine. You said you're trying to set up name based and IP based, but all I see here is name based. You can see an example of IP based in mine, sites 1 and 2 are on one IP and site 3 is on another. So sites 1 and 2 are name based and site 3 is IP based.

Are you trying to pull this up from the local machine or another computer on the lan? Are the domains already in a DNS server to point to the proper IP? If you're trying from the local machine try another computer on the lan, if the domains aren't already in DNS and trying to access from a windows 2k or xp (not sure if it's the same in 9x) edit the lmhosts.sam file and add
www.site1.com 192.168.0.1
www.site2.com 192.168.0.1

And then see if it will pull them properly.

Thanks for the reply. I guess that I am still confused as to the difference between IP and Name Based. I have read the Apache docs and thought I understood the difference. From looking at your config file, it looks to me that "Virtual Host Site 1" is your "default" virtual host. Is that correct??? If that is the case, do I need to specify the DirectoryIndex specifications for the rest of the virtual hosts? I had initially tried assigning several virtual IP addresses to my NIC so that I could use IP based virtual hosting (since 2 of these sites are going to be e-commerce sites and I need SSL functionality), but I couldn't get that to work either. I have tried accessing the sites from both the localhost and also another machine on my lan. I get the same results. For example, my primary domain (home) is www.tictocdoc.com, and my "new" domain is www.paranormalreport.org. I currently have "tictocdoc" commented out in my Vhosts.conf file (and stopped and restarted httpd). If you go to it now you will get paranormalreport.org. If you go to paranormalreport.org, you still get the same site. As you can probably tell, paranormalreport.org is a PHP-Nuke site. I will have 2 of these type sites total. The other sites were created in a standard html editor. My ultimate goal is to have 4-5 Name Based virtual hosts and 2 IP/SSL based virtual hosts on the same server with only 1 NIC.

Thanks again for all of your help.

hmm... I don't know about Mandrake, but on Fedora it was easy to accomplish both.

Yes site 1 is my default Virtual Host.

As far as the DirectoryIndex when I set up the virtual hosts with the configuration utility in Fedora it automatically put that there. So it wouldn't be a bad idea to put it there.

The only other thing I see is the ServerPath variable. But that shouldn't be an issue.

try putting the NameVirtualHost inside the <VirtualHost 192.168.x.x></VirtualHost>

Hello I tried copying your file (making the appropriate changes for my system). It worked sort of. I restored my original file that I backed up several days ago and all 3 of my sites work as designed. I believe that the problems were caused by the changes that I made to httpd.conf for the addition of 2 new PHP-Nuke based sites. Seems like things started getting stranged after I added those changes. I will do more research on adding PHP sites to MD10 before I add them again.

Thanks for everyone's help!!!!

If you find that when you goto your site (www.yoursite.com) it seems dead try using your full taget page name (www.yoursite.com/index.htm).

If the latter works, add this directive inside each of your virtual hosts:

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