Hi,

I am running CentOS 5.4 and Apache 2.2.3 straight out of the box. Problem is vhosts will not work. All I can get is a test page or the manual. The machine I am accessing from has the hosts file edited to point test.loc to 192.168.1.254 on my LAN. Owner:group are apache:apache, same as the server is running and permissions include read by owner. No errors in the logs. Any suggestions?

httpd.conf
<VirtualHost _default_:*>
DocumentRoot /var/www/apache/manual
# DocumentRoot /var/www/eswebs
</VirtualHost>

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test.loc
ServerAlias test.com www.test.com test.loc www.test.loc
DocumentRoot /var/www/test
ServerAdmin me@some.com
ErrorLog logs/error_log
CustomLog logs/access_log combined
</VirtualHost>
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Spill from -S command line option:
[root@server httpd]# httpd -S
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
_default_:8443 69.109.23.9 (/etc/httpd/conf.d/nss.conf:73)
_default_:443 69.109.23.9 (/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:81)
_default_:* 69.109.23.9 (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:995)
*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server test.com (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:4)
port 80 namevhost eswebs.com (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:4)
Syntax OK

You don't need the <VirtualHost _default_:*> for the vhost on port 80
Check httpd.conf, because from the above it looks like the default vhost is test.com (it should be test.loc) and the 1st vhost is eswebs.com (?).

In the httpd.conf comment out these lines :
<VirtualHost _default_:*>
DocumentRoot /var/www/apache/manual
# DocumentRoot /var/www/eswebs
</VirtualHost>

NameVirtualHost *:80

and make sure this is the only virtual host section you have:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test.loc
ServerAlias test.com www.test.com test.loc www.test.loc
DocumentRoot /var/www/test
ServerAdmin me@some.com
ErrorLog logs/error_log
CustomLog logs/access_log combined
</VirtualHost>

and it will work.