I have Centos 7 - Trying to move everything into something newer but having nightmares.

I already have a threas about samba, now I have a problem with Apache Virtual servers.

On Centos 7 I had the Virtual server file in http/conf.d

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName server1.mydomain-FQDN
DocumentRoot /var/www/server1
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(/server1/.*) /www/server1$1

ServerAdmin my email address
ServerAlias server1
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/server1-error_log
TransferLog /var/log/httpd/server1-access_log
DirectoryIndex index.php
</VirtualHost>

It ran perfectly since CentOS 7 was released. It doesn't work on Centos 8.
I search the HowTo sites. Tried 3 with three different setups. NONE work

The last one I tried was this

<virtualhost *:80>
ServerName server1.mydomain-FQDN
ServerAlias www.server1.mydomain-FQDN
DocumentRoot /var/www/server1.mydomain-FQDN
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/server1.mydomain-FQDN-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/server1.mydomain-FQDN-access.log combined
</virtualhost>

I don't want an html sub directory after /var/www but I followed the instructions THAT doesn't work.

I had to create new folders sites-available and sites enabled and put the server1.conf file in there, followed by creating symbolic links. Just a waste of time, but I tried it. DOESN'T work.

I've come to the conclusion that all the help files on the web are just there to confuse the hell out of people.

Can anyone help me to get this working I host 3 virtual sites on this server. I installed Rocky, but it has all the same bugs and I tried all the above on Rocky as well. Same story.

Both CentOS 8 and Rocky don't retain the screen resolution. Down the server, bring it back upo and we are back to 800x600 again

I'm on the point of staying with CentOS 7, seems Red Hat lost it after that. Not surprisong people stick on shitty Windows.

I think there was an update to the apache server used on CentOS and those updates may have changed the config file syntax or locations.

On my fedora workstation the apache2 config is in /etc/httpd/conf for the main server config and in /etc/httpd/conf.d for the config related to each virtual server domain you set up.

How that specifically relates to what you see with CentOS 7 to 8 upgrade I don't know, but as you seem already aware Rocky or Alma seems to be the replacement(s) for CentOS 8 so I would suggest you look at what has changed from 7 and work with that going forward.

Remember that windows locks you into doing things their way and linux allows you to tailor things to fit what you feel is best. Complaining when things change gains nothing except angst for you and venting to us which is irritating.

Providing the details of how you are attempting to fix things and what exactly is not working gives us the info needed to assist. Venting does not.

What exactly is the document root for the virtual machine? On Fedora the main server has /var/www and the actual documents served are under /var/www/html since there is also a /var/www/cgi-bin directory to allow the server to access the binaries there to manipulate the data. Each virtual server has its own path to the document root so they can provide independent services to clients.

For example, main server would use /var/www while server1 would use /var/www1, server2 would use /var/www2, etc. Each would have its own /var/www?/html and /var/www?/cgi-bin directories to keep the data separate. YMMV depending upon the needs and sites.