Hi all,
Having serious trouble using Virtual Host.
I'm having ServerName as and DocumentRoot as
and have:
all other codes are in default.

I have both index.html in /var/www/html/temp1/ and /home/SCI/temp2/

when I go to mydomain1.com/temp1/ it didn't work but mydomain2.com/temp2/ worked fine with the above settings.

but if I added a "s" behind the http temp1 worked prefectly. (Which I'm very confused..., I do have cgi-bin script set up though but I believe there's nothing to do with the settings inside)

When I comment out the under VirtualHost this time mydomain2.com/temp2 worked but not mydomain1.temp1

Can any one help this dummy?
Cheers
Jam

can you add another VirtualHost entry as following

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mydomain2.com
DocumentRoot /home/SCI
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName mydomain1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
</VirtualHost>


then you will be able to work out with the ServerName!!

see the idea is like following:-

ServerName mydomain1.com:80

is used by the server to identify the itself on DNS

If you are using name-based virtual hosts, the ServerName inside a <VirtualHost> section specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to match this virtual host. hence you need to put the virtualhost entry for ServerName to make it appear valid on DNS lookup for incoming request.

-Rahul.

If you use virtual hosts then the documentroot in the global context is ignored. You must do as rahulk says. Another thing to note is that the first virtual host found in the config file is the default one, that is, if a domain points to your server but there is no virtual host for it then the documents from the first virtual host will be used. With this knowledge you may find it more appropriate to swap the order of the virtualhost clauses around in rahulk's example

Thank you rahulk and phil.d.g, the combination of your answers worked great on my server (except I had to change <VirtualHost *> to <VirtualHost *:80> for mydomain1.com but it worked)
I don't know what to do without you guys. (those apache books didn't even mention the global context is ignored while having virtual hosts)