Re: Main domain and virtual hosts (Apache Users)

Works for me. I'm running v2.4.16. What version of Apache HTTPD are you running? According to the docs the NameVirtualHost "directive currently has no effect." And the default behavior changed with v2.3.11. So I'm wondering if you're running v2.2.*.

If you issue a "host example.com 8.8.8.8" command on a UNIX like system does it report "example.com has address <myIP>"?

Also, when you say it "does not work and gets into a redirect loop" how did you determine that? Did you do a controlled test with a CLI tool like curl with verbose (-v) output enabled and observe that you received a HTTP 301 redirect? Or did something else occur?

What does the Apache HTTPD access and error logs show? Setting "LogLevel debug" might be necessary to get messages relevant to this problem.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Warren Bell <warrenbell2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have 3 virtual hosts set up like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example
ErrorLog /var/www/html/example/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/html/example/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.site1.example.com
ServerAlias site1.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site1
ErrorLog /var/www/html/site1/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/html/site1/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.site2.example.com
ServerAlias site2.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site2
ErrorLog /var/www/html/site2/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/html/site2/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>

httpd.conf has the following uncommented:

NameVirtualHost *:80

and the following commented

#ServerName www.example.com:80

My DNS has A records

example.com -> myIP
*.example.com -> myIP

myIP is the same for both records.

site1.example.com works fine and goes to the correct site.

site2.example.com works fine and goes to the correct site.

example.com does not work and gets into a redirect loop.

What do I need to configure to get example.com to work ?

Thanks,

Warren Bell

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