Hi all,

I am running Apache on Red Hat and my home website works fine. I am pretty new to all of this, but what I'd like to do is have other 'sites' with my domain, like instead of www.mysite.com, something like www2.mysite.com or blah.mysite.com.

I assume it isn't too hard to do? Hopefully someone can just point me to some documentation or let me know how to change a configuration file somewhere. I'd gladly provide more info about my system if it's helpful.

Thanks...

You want to check into Apache's virtual host capability. There is good documentation on the Apache site on how to set up virtual hosts.

I've wrestled with this for a while now and can't seem to get it to work properly. The virtual hosts section of my httpd.conf file looks something like this:

What I have noticed in this setup is that if I switch the order of these two virtual host blocks, the site is affected. Specifically, which ever comes first controls the site: www.mydomain. com and other.mydomain.com will both use the DocumentRoot of the VirtualHost that appears first. This tells me I am definitely doing something wrong. Hopefully it's something simple... All of the examples I've seen have been for two sites like www.domain. com and www.domain2. com, I figured it shouldn't be much different, but maybe it is?

I'll gladly provide more info if it helps you help me! Thanks in advance...

Actually, this is correct behavior. When Apache doesn't recognize a virtual domain, it defaults to the first one in the list.

My virtual hosts directives aren't much different from yours, but there is one potentially critical difference.

You've got:

<VirtualHost *>

As your starting point, but I've got:

<VirtualHost *:80>

for all of mine.

Well HangDog,

I took the 7 seconds to make that change, restarted the httpd, and everything worked fine. Thanks so much for noticing that little difference. Should have posted my question before trying 50 things that didn't work!