Re: VirtualHost configuration not working as expected with ePages solution (Apache Users)

Thanks for your reply Adam.

The output requested is:

VirtualHost configuration:

127.0.0.1:443 localhost (/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:81)

wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:

*:80 is a NameVirtualHost

default server url2.mydomain.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz-epages-httpd.conf:215)

port 80 namevhost url2.mydomain.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz-epages-httpd.conf:215)

port 80 namevhost url2.mydomain.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz-epages-httpd.conf:225)

port 80 namevhost url2.mydomain.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz-epages-httpd.conf:215)

port 80 namevhost url2.mydomain.com (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz-epages-httpd.conf:225)

Syntax OK

As for the DNS query, I'm pretty sure this is right, I have added Host (A) entries in DNS for both url1 and url2.

Any thoughts to the apachectl output? I am not actually using the _default_ anymore, just both *:80.

Thanks again,

Tom

From: Adam Dosch <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tom Frost <fro5tie@xxxxxxxxx>; users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2013, 19:28
Subject: Re: VirtualHost configuration not working as expected with ePages solution

Tom,

I'd be curious what the output of your 'apachectl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS' looks like?

I've come across this problem as well in a related degree, and interrogating the output of the 'DUMP_VHOSTS' above will at least tell you the top-to-bottom order your vhost requests will travel down in your configuration.

One way I had to solve it was take my VirtualHost container for '_default_', put it in it's own configuration file and include it prior to any other vhost config files in httpd.conf. It looked a bit like this in my httpd.conf:

NameVirtualHost *:80
Include conf/mydefault-vhost.conf # which would contain your default vhost container for url2.mydomain.com
Include conf/*-vhost.conf # contain your others like url1, urlfoo, urlboo, urlbar, etc., it would be one config, or many, your choice.

Using this approach, I did notice that a blanket wildcard/greedy include of all *.conf file gives you varying results, especially if you were managing all your vhosts in separate configuration files for clarity/organization sake like I was.

Otherwise, sounds like you've verified client-side caching. My last logical thought would be perhaps if you're not using CNAME's in DNS for this and right-out calling them from the client without any hostname resolution on those FQDNs, that you need to add that those host aliases of 'url1.mydomain.com' and 'url1.mydomain.com' to your /etc/hosts or equiv in Windows.

-A

On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 08:05:26 -0800 (PST), Tom Frost wrote:
> If I use either url1.mydomain.com or url2.mydomain.com they both go
> to the url2.mydomain.com VirtualHost site.
>
> I have cleared caches and done a Ctrl-F5 to force the page to reload.
>
> I'm sure that its something to do with epages, as I said there is a
> lot of other config in there but I'm honestly not sure what is what.
>
> Thanks again for your help, any more suggestions would be appreciated.
>

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