virtual hosting head scratcher
 

I have a computer at home and one at work that are both running Apache2 Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer (the default install that ships with Mandrake 9.2).

At home, I've got virtual hosting working just fine with about 4 different domains getting served.

At work, I can't get any subdomains to be served. We've got two different domains pointing at this IP and regardless of what URL I request, the root page is served from /var/www/html/

Here is my /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf file:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName 216-165-210-197.crescentb.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
HostnameLookups on
Options +Includes
AddHandler server-parsed .html
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.norwoodtower.com
ServerAlias norwoodtower.com *.norwoodtower.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/nt
</VirtualHost>


I wish there was more explicit logging available. For instance, /var/log/access_log only shows the request came in for / --- it doesn't say what domain, etc.

What are the other dependencies required for virtual hosting to work? Anyone know how to enable verbose logging in Apache?

Appreciatively,

di11rod

more information
 

Here's some more info...

So I created an info.php file and put it in the root directory (/var/www/html), then called it with the URL www.norwoodtower.com

Several interesting environmental variables are being set:

HTTP_HOST norwoodtower.com
SERVER_NAME norwoodtower.com
DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/html/nt
SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/html/info.php

Why won't the server dip into the proper nt directory? Permissions are fine, etc. If I request the URL www.norwoodtower.com/nt then it serves the correct page.

Any ideas?

thanks in advance,

di11rod

figured it out
 

While troubleshooting a seperate issue, I had inadvertantly added this

VirtualDocumentRootIP /var/www/html

to the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf file. That destroys namebased virtual hosting in apache.

di11rod