I am trying to set up virtual servers within apache. I want it to be name based. I've read the apache docs and read the other posts on this issue within this site, but still no workie... Here is what I have done: within the httpd.conf file I added the following;
NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.15
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.15>
ServerName www.test.com
ServerAlias test.com *.test.com
DocumentRoot /home/apache/www/test
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.15>
ServerName www.test2.com
ServerAlias test2.com *.test2.com
DocumentRoot /home/apache/www/test2
</VirtualHost>


I added www.test.com and www.test2.com to my host file on my windows machine to reslove to 192.168.0.15. When I attempt to connect to either test.com or test2.com I get;
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.


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Apache/2.0.43 Server at www.test2.com (same thing for test.com)Port 80

I've tried several other things but am starting to confuse myself...

Any help and suggestions would be appreciated.

Couple more things, I am running it on Suse 8.0 and using the latest version from apache.org

It looks like you're attepmting to access the /home directory through httpd. This is possible, but not advisable. You can change the permissions on that directory (and the parent directories) so that it is readable by whoever the httpd daemon is running as or world-readable.

If you're just trying to allow users to share html from a dir in their home directories you could have a look at the suse_publichtml.conf and ensure that your machine is configured (it's rc.config in SuSE 7.3...) to use those directives.

That seemed to solve a big part of my problem. I moved the documentroot to under apache2, but now I get the index of the dir. It looks like apache maybe doesn't know what file to look for to be the default page (ie index.html) Where can I set that? Thanks

Have a look at your httpd.conf file (or any Include directives as referenced by httpd.conf) for the DirectoryIndex directive. Mine looks like this...