[SOLVED] Apache Virtual Servers (CentOS 5.5)

dstu · 09-19-2010, 01:55 AM

Hello,

I activated several virtual servers on my Apache, and since then, all the domains I use are directed to the directory of a single one of them (in this case, /var/www/mydomain.com).

This is the config section:

Code:

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/mydomain.com"
ServerName mydomain.com
<Directory "/var/www/mydomain.com">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/mydomain2.com"
ServerName mydomain2.com
<Directory "/var/www/mydomain2.com">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/mydomain.com"
ServerName www.mydomain.com
<Directory "/var/www/mydomain.com">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/mydomain2.com
ServerName www.mydomain2.com
<Directory "/var/www/mydomain2.com">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
LogLevel debug
</VirtualHost>

Can anyone help identify why this happens?

Thanks.

quanta · 09-19-2010, 02:42 AM

It's Name-based Virtual Host. Do you have a NameVirtualHost directive? What happen when you restart Apache? Did you take a look at log file?

smoker · 09-19-2010, 02:44 AM

The first virtual host is used for requests without a known domain name, so perhaps your config is suspect.
Personally I would use the following :

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/mydomain.com"
<Directory "/var/www/mydomain.com">
     Allow from all
     Options +Indexes
</Directory>
SetEnv SITE_ROOT /var/www/mydomain.com
SetEnv SITE_HTMLROOT /var/www/mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mydomain2.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain2.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/mydomain2.com"
<Directory "/var/www/mydomain2.com">
     Allow from all
     Options +Indexes
</Directory>
SetEnv SITE_ROOT /var/www/mydomain2.com
SetEnv SITE_HTMLROOT /var/www/mydomain2.com
LogLevel debug
</VirtualHost>

But on my sites, I have the document root, separate from the site root:
DocumentRoot "/var/www/mydomain2.com/html"
SetEnv SITE_ROOT /var/www/mydomain2.com
SetEnv SITE_HTMLROOT /var/www/mydomain2.com/html

Have you verified the config ?

Code:

httpd -S

dstu · 09-19-2010, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Have you verified the config ?

Code:

httpd -S

That's the result I get:

Code:

[root@servername ~]# httpd -S
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
_default_:443          servername.mydomain.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:81)
*:*                    mydomain.com (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:992)
*:*                    mydomain2.com (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1000)
*:*                    www.mydomain.com (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1008)
*:80                   www.mydomain2.com (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1016)
Syntax OK

I think that there's something missing and that it simply takes the first virtual server for all names and ignores the "ServerName" entry.

smoker · 09-19-2010, 02:42 PM

Did you check the NameVirtualHost directive as quanta suggested ? If that's not enabled then only the main server site will be serviced.

dstu · 09-20-2010, 01:25 AM

Thanks guys. I missed it at first, because in my config file, that directive was followed by *:80, so I didn't think it was related.

One thing left now. If I go to the server by its IP address (no domain name), it goes to the mydomain.com directory (the first virtual server), but I would like it to go to the /var/www/html directory, just like the https does. Where should I define that? Should I create another virtual server with any/any settings?

Thanks.

smoker · 09-20-2010, 03:54 PM

Define the site correctly. The first virtual site should have DocumentRoot defined the way you want it. Personally I wouldn't have all the sites under /var/www , I would put them in separate directories :

/home/site1/www/html/
/home/site2/www/html/

etc, etc.

Sites can be anywhere, you just specify the directory in the httpd.conf

dstu · 09-21-2010, 04:43 AM

Hi,

I just placed the default virtual server first int he list and all the named ones below, and now everything works, just as I want it.

Thanks.