Hi there,

I've got apache installed and all is working well, but I want to have multiple sites available on my machine.

From reading the manual I could add

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test.localhost
DocumentRoot "/home/web/"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test2.localhost
DocumentRoot "/home/web2/"
</VirtualHost>

and if I then type http://test.localhost into my webbrowser I should get the index.html residing in /home/web

but instead I get a www.test.localhost could not be found error. Could someone please tell me what I have done wrong?

Finally if someone knows of a simple tutorial so I can set up a firewall on my machine using iptables that would be great (all the ones I can find seem to assume you're some sort of network guru )

Thanks for the help!

The problem will probably go away if you add some ServerAlias directives to the virtual host definitions. For example:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test.localhost
ServerAlias www.test.localhost
ServerAlias *.test.localhost
DocumentRoot "/home/web/"
</VirtualHost>

The *.test.localhost really should catch everything, but you traditionally add any alias you know is actually in use.

See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod...ml#serveralias

And: http://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/arc...th_apache.html

Thanks for the info, is still doesn't seem to be working though

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test.localhost
DocumentRoot "/home/web/"
ServerAlias "www.test.localhost"
ServerAlias "*.test.localhost"
</VirtualHost>

I don't think you need the quotes - not sure if that would jack this up or not though

I agree. No quotes.

Still no joy without quotes anywhere

It's apache 1.3x by the way - I don't think that makes any difference though

The problem may be related to ServerName and ServerAlias looking for Fully Qualified Domain Names.

Looking at a local server running virtual hosts, http://localhost gives the default virtual host, whereas http://test.localhost results in “www.test.locahost not found”. Likewise, “ping localhost” works fine and ping “test.localhost” fails.

After adding test.localhost to /etc/hosts, test.localhost works fine in Apache and ping.

/etc/hosts addition:

127.0.0.1 test.localhost

You will probably still need to have “ServerAlias *...localhost” in the definitions.

That solves the problem, thanks very much!

When I went back and reread the Apache documentation on the ServerName directive, FQDN jumped off the screen at me. Sometimes it’s the really obvious stuff that’s hard to figure out.

Glad everything worked out.