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You have Slackware12 in you signature, however not sure if that's the distro that you're using for your webserver.

If you run a stock Slackware 12 box, vhosts are defined in /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. You uncomment one line in /etc/httpf/httpd.conf as shown below to activate it; this line is commented out (so non-functional) by default

Code:

Include /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

The content of my httpd-vhosts.conf:

Code:

#

# Use name-based virtual hosting.

#

NameVirtualHost *:80



# catch-all

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin my@email.here

    DocumentRoot /srv/httpd/htdocs

    ServerName btd-techweb02

</VirtualHost>



# site 1

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin my@email.here

    DocumentRoot /home/wim/www/site1/web

    ServerName site1.btd-techweb02

    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log

    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log common



#WimS

# this is required to prevent message 403 "Forbidden"

    <Directory "/home/wim/www/site1/web">

        Order allow,deny

        Allow from all

    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>



# site2

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin my@email.here

    DocumentRoot /home/wim/www/site2/web

    ServerName site2.btd-techweb02

    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log

    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log common



#WimS

# this is required to prevent message 403 "Forbidden"

    <Directory "/home/wim/www/site2/web">

        Order allow,deny

        Allow from all

    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>





# site3: stringdokter.com

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin your@email.here

    DocumentRoot /home/phantom_cyph/www/stringdokter/web

    ServerName www.stringdokter.com

    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/stringdokter.com-error_log

    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/stringdokter.com-access_log common



#WimS

# this is required to prevent message 403 "Forbidden"

    <Directory "/home/phantom_cyph/www/stringdokter/web">

        Order allow,deny

        Allow from all

    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

I have added your site (italic) to show you, but not tested it.

As you might notice, I don't use the standard apache directory for the websites, but the user's home directory. Reason is that I consider it easier when it comes to ftp. Usually a system administrator wants to jail ftp-users to their home directory and I have seen too many questions regarding permissions and access to /var/www/htdocs in relation with ftp. In the setup that I have choosen, a user can ftp to his/her home directory and descend into the web directory to update the website. Disadvantage however is that if apache needs to write files, you need to open the permissions a bit.

My directory tree for the sites looks like this:

Code:

/home

  |

  +--- wim

  |    |

  |    +--- www

  |          |

  |          +--- site1

  |          |    |

  |          |    +--- web (externally accessible files go here, e.g. webpages)

  |          |    |    |

  |          |    |    +--- files (directory that can be written by apache)

  |          |    |

  |          |    +--- inc (files required for the website, but need to be kept secure, go here)

  |          |

  |          +--- site2

  |          |    |

  |

  +--- phantom_cyph

  |    |

  |    +--- www

  |          |

  |          +--- stringdokter

  |          |    |

  |          |    +--- web

  |          |    |    |

  |          |    |    +--- files

  |          |    |

  |          |    +--- inc

  |          |

I saw that you have php enabled, so here a small tip which also explains the inc directory in my setup:
I don't want php code that e.g reveals login credentials for a database to be accessible from the outside world (anything in web is), so that goes in inc. The webpage that uses that code will go in web and will use a include statement to access it.

Sorry for the long story, I hope it helps a bit in understanding things.