Hi Joshua, ouch, I knew I missed something vital. You see, I errantly first tried to put the additional Listen in the vhost container where it definitely didn't belong. # apachectl configtest Syntax error on line 5 of /var/www/apache/conf.d/vhosts.conf: Listen cannot occur within <VirtualHost> section That sort of distracted me from Listen altogehter. But when I put it in global context, thanks to your remider, it also binds to 192.168.2.2:80 :-) Still what disturbs me is that it also preforked 10 accept children according to the StartServers setting for the main webserver. I don't need such a waste for my private maintenance vhost. I would like to set StartServers to 1 for the vhost. But this isn't the allowed context for this directive either. # apachectl configtest Syntax error on line 4 of /var/www/apache/conf.d/vhosts.conf: StartServers cannot occur within <VirtualHost> section Is there a way to restrict the forked servers for this vhost while keeping the higher numbers for the public webserver? Ralph > -----Original Message----- > From: jslive@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joshua > Slive > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:32 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Why doesn't Apache bind socket to > vhost's IP > addr.? > > > On 2/28/06, Ralph.Grothe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <Ralph.Grothe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > # cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf > > <VirtualHost 192.168.2.2:80> > > ServerName tintin_ic1:80 > > ServerAdmin root@localhost > > DocumentRoot /var/www/apache/html > > CustomLog logs/ic1.log common > > ErrorLog logs/ic1_error.log > > LogLevel debug > > </VirtualHost> > > > > > > As said the configtest is syntactically correct > > which can easily be verified by putting some junk chars > > in the above vhost container file. > > > > Nevertheless, when I start the webserver I see no listening > > socket > > for this vhost's IP address, > > but only those for the publich IP (ports 80 and 443). > > > > I raised the LogLevel to debug but in error_log the only virtual > > host > > entries that appear on startup relate to the SSL container. > > > > What have I missed? > > Listen 192.168.2.2:80 > > Joshua. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx