hosting multi websites, all sites use the same doc root

ImAmMe · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 61

Apache serving wrong document root, i can not figure why for the life of me. I have done some googling found a few tutorials on subject and i dont understand why i can not change the document root, its allways the same. I thought it was using the default website configuration, i dont believe so anymore.

fun facts
- im using one machine, one ip
- I can ping both foo, and altsite. so i can resolve the addresses ok.
- For debugging i have all files and directory set to 755, under /var/www/*
- right now im not getting any complaints from Apache on reload/restart

emerge -pv apache

Veldrin · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:09 pm Post subject:

your virtual hosts all listen on *:80, which matches every domain. you could this a some kind of last resort vhosts for any unmatched domains, but if that wildcard vhosts is put first, it will always match.

use something like

ImAmMe · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 61

thank u for the suggestion...
but still im getting the wrong directory for the altsite
I tried changing both VirtualHost line at separate times and still no luck.

I played with the default_vhost.include file changing the DocumentRoot and Directory. And doing that corrected my altsite root, but my foo site not right now. So i guess im having an issue with my default website catching all the request...right?

Veldrin · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 7:31 pm Post subject:

try disabling the DEFAULT_VHOST - I still have a feeling that it is interfering. from the little information i have, the default_vhost will be read before the other vhosts, and therefore overriding them.

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ImAmMe · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 61

ok...
- removed the DEFAULT_HOST flag service config file
- moved the Listen, ServerName to /etc/apache/httpd.conf

restarted the service. Still no change.

Im more than happy to share any more information, i dont know what share to make this easy for u

Veldrin · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:29 pm Post subject:

how are you accessing the pages? what browser? what url?
are you using dns resolution? or are the hosts added /etc/hosts?
is the cache disabled? did you clean it between the tries?

just some random thoughts. - i am especially curious about the last ones.
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ImAmMe · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 61

im using several browers
win7 box: firefox 14.0.1, Chrome 21.0.1180.79
gentoo box: elinks 0.11.7

firefox and chrome are the primary two im testing with. Now i havent been very religious about clear dns between goes. But it seems to find 'foo' and dev.altsite.com most every time. but just consistently displays the wrong document root for the dev.altsite.com. I have tried from a three different boxes, one of which is the local box. Get the same result every time

the machine running the apache server, is running dnsmasq-2.57.
my /etc/hosts

s_bernstein · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:27 am Post subject:

Stupid question, but you did activate vhost support in your /etc/conf.d/apache, right?

On the other hand, some hints:

1. Your vhost.d/*.conf seems to be correct. Also, you can mix the default vhost with own vhosts without problems and <VirtualHost *:80>
is also correct.

2. You do not need to add NameVirtualHost statement to httpd.conf. The vhost module will do this for you.

3. Your server must be able to resolve the hostnames - always double check with nslookup

4. You can check your setup with apache2ctl configtest. There was a -S parameter to that commend to test vhost setup but taht doesn't seems to work anymore.