Hi, I looked at output of a "# httpd -S" command too- didn't see an obvious problem but here it is (pardon all the redaction):
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[root@[myhostname mysuperuser]# httpd -S
[Tue Jun 25 10:06:18 2013] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:443 has no VirtualHosts
VirtualHost configuration:
[Assigned Public IP Redacted]:443 www.[redacted] (/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:78)
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server localhost (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1074)
port 80 namevhost localhost (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1074)
alias localhost
port 80 namevhost www.[redacted] (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1080)
alias [redacted]
port 80 namevhost [redacted] (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1103)
alias [redacted]
Syntax OK
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To summarize, the default Apache localhost website works, the vhost for a live website works, but I cannot get the third vhost for a site under development to be accessible from the Internet- only on the localhost. I cranked up the Apache log level this morning to "debug" and confirmed the SuExec wrapper script is instantiated for the user associated with the third vhost. So its not SuExec. I double checked permissions/ownership, again. So it does not appear to be that. Again, this morning I changed the Order, Allow,Deny directives to "Allow all". Still no access from the Internet. Third vhost only works when I enter its alias in a browser on the server console.
As a reminder- I don't have a FQDN for the third vhost site- so I just made a /etc/host temporary entry as mentioned earlier in my post. Therefore when I try to check for public access, I'm always using a physical path in the browser as:
http://[redacted public IP]/~[redacted user for 3rd vhost]/[redacted site directory for 3rd vhost]/index.php
"as well as a invocation of e.g. wget
demonstrating the problem."
I don't follow what you mean by reference to wget- a unix file transfer utility...
