Re: [users@httpd] Apache, Virtual Hosting, Dymamic IP, DNS2Go, GoDaddy

jvz <johan@xxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:15:42 +0200

You have helped a lot already! Let's just hope I can get this to work.
Thx!!

Larry Flathmann wrote:

As I think about it, I think the easiest thing would be to forward 

your other domains to realwebonline.net:81 and realwebonline:82

Then in Apache you can use mod_rewrite to do redirection from 

realwebonline:81 to medxinfo.net, etc.

I wish I had time to help you figure out the details!

--Larry

jvz wrote:

Thx! It does make sense!

Larry Flathmann wrote:

Hi Johan,

It looks to me like the problem is not with Apache, the problem is 

with your DNS forwarding.

If you forward another domain to realwebonline.net, then Apache is 

going to receive a request for the realwebonline website, and Apache 

is going to respond with the realwebonline website.

I'm not familiar with Dynamic DNS forwarding, but to get it to work 

you have to direct your DNS to the ip address of your server, not to 

the domain name of realwebonline.net.

One workaround that you might try is to do your DNS forwarding to 

different port numbers. Then at your router or in Apache you could 

distinguish between the different websites by port number.

Hope that helps!
Larry

jvz wrote:

Hi

Have been trying to solve this on the comp.lang.clarion News Group 

but to no avail.

I will just post some of the replies.
===
Hi
Apache, Virtual Hosting, Dynamic IP, DNS2Go, GoDaddy.
I am having problems with Virtual Hosting.
www.realwebonline.net points to the Name Servers of DNS2Go i.e.
ns1.dns2go.com etc. as suggested by DNS2Go.
On my internal server I have the DNS2Go client installed.
All my other domains are forwarded to www.realweboline.net
My main site is www.realwebonline.net and that sould lead you to page
that says " This is Realwebonline" etc. and www.medx.info should show
the proper MEDX  webpage but it doesn't, it shows the realwebobline
page. www.realsql.net should also announce itself with a "This is..."
Internally, inside the router, it all works properly. But from the
outside ... Nope
Here is my current sript.
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
   DocumentRoot "C:/_MySites/docs/realwebonlinenet"
   ServerName realwebonline.net
   ServerAlias www.realwebonline.net realwebonline.net
   DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.htm index.php
   ErrorLog C:/_MySites/logs/realwebonlinenet-error.log
   CustomLog C:/_MySites/logs/realwebonlinenet-access.log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>          DocumentRoot "C:/_MySites/docs/medxinfo"
   ServerName medx.info
   ServerAlias www.medx.info medx.info
   DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.htm index.php
   ErrorLog C:/_MySites/logs/medxinfo-error.log
   CustomLog C:/_MySites/logs/medxinfo-access.log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>      DocumentRoot "C:/_MySites/docs/realsqlnet"
   ServerName realsql.net
       ServerAlias www.realsql.net realsql.net
   DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.htm index.php
   ErrorLog C:/_MySites/logs/realsqlnet-error.log
   CustomLog C:/_MySites/logs/realsqlnet-access.log common
</VirtualHost>

Maybe I must forget about forwarding, would it be psosible to rather
point all the domains to DNS2Go NameServers and then the Virtual
Hosting should work. But the DNS2Go client running on my inhouse
server can only register one domain at a time i.e realwebonline.net?
How now brown cow?
===
Johan
Your 'servername' should have the www in front, as in
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/_MySites/docs/realwebonlinenet"
    ServerName www.realwebonline.net
    ServerAlias realwebonline.net
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.htm index.php
    ErrorLog C:/_MySites/logs/realwebonlinenet-error.log
    CustomLog C:/_MySites/logs/realwebonlinenet-access.log common
</VirtualHost>

The VirtualHost concept works perfectly well! here is an extract of my
httpd.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  SSLEngine off
  ServerName www.bgsoftfactory.com
  ErrorLog logs/softfactory_ssl_error.log
  CustomLog logs/softfactory_ssl_access.log combined
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin - [L]
  RewriteRule ^/(.*)

http://127.0.0.1:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/www.bgsoftfactory.com:80/Plone/VirtualHostRoot/$1 

[P]
  <Proxy *>
     Order deny,allow
     Allow from all
  </Proxy>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName exlinuxbox # used only Locally
Alias /awstatsclasses "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/classes/"
Alias /awstatscss "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/css/"
Alias /awstatsicons "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/icon/"
Alias /stats "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/"
ScriptAlias /awstats/ "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot">
 Options None
 AllowOverride None
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  ServerName files.bgsoftfactory.com
  DocumentRoot "D:/PloneStorage"
  ErrorLog logs/www-bgsoftfactory-com-storage-error.log
  CustomLog logs/www-bgsoftfactory-com-storage-access.log common
  <Directory "D:/PloneStorage">
     Options None
     AllowOverride None
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   DocumentRoot "C:/ApacheSSL/htdocs/relagen/"
   ServerName www.healthprohome.com
   ErrorLog logs/www.healthprohome.com-error_log
   CustomLog logs/www.healthprohome.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
Bernard
===
> It does not work, set up as below.
> They ALL land up with "The is realwebonline.net" instead of going to
> the REAL medx.info or realsql websites?
> Thx
> JVZ

They don't, at least from here:

Here is what I get:
www.medx.info:
This is
realwebonline.net
http://www.realwebonline.net
C:\_MySites\docs\realwebonlinenet

This is http://www.realwebonline.net in its own 1folder on c:\mysites
Don't work.

www.realsql.com
c:\mysites\docs\realwebonlinenet\realsqlcom

This is http://www.realsql.com NOT in its own folder!

As I don't see a DocumentRoot entry for medx, seems prety normal 

that it

does not work...

Bernard
Works.
===

> But there is a DocumentRoot for medx.info? Am I missing 

something, why

> do you say there is no DocumentRoot for medx.info?

Yes, you are. Medx.info is a DOMAIN name, not a SERVER (think MACHINE)
name. It's not qualifying enough. VirtualHost REQUIRE fully qualified
SERVER NAME. Re-read Apache doc.

I have been trying to tell you so since a while , already.. <g>

Bernard
===
> Hi Bernard

> And you are also using Dynamic IP, i.e. you are hosting your 

websites

> yourself on ADSL?
> Which client are you client to sort out your Dynamic IP?
> DNS2Go, DynDNS, ???
> Can I then assume that
>  www.bgsoftfactory.com

> is your main domain and that the Name Server of this domain 

points to

> NameServers DNS2Go, DynDNS, ??? ?

No, I have now a fixed IP address, but I have been using DNS2Go for 

a long

time, and apache virtual hosting works exactly the same. It depends on
server names, not of the way your DNS is setup. The only thing which
matter, however you do it, is that a SERVER name match your APACHE

VirtualHost server name (and that it get routed to the correct 

machine).

I insists on SERVER name, as it seems you somewhat confuse between 

DOMAIN

name (bgsoftfactory.com) and SERVER name ( www.bgsoftfactory.com and

files.bgsoftfactory.com, but also mail.bg...., ftp.bg..., 

secure.bg... etc,

etc...)

Bernard
===
Johan

First, remove your ServerAlias directive, it just confuses you.

Second, I am not sure why you put a name with another directory. 

Try this:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
       DocumentRoot "C:/_MySites/docs/medxinfo"

    ServerName www.medx.info           DirectoryIndex index.html 

index.html.var index.htm index.php

    ErrorLog C:/_MySites/logs/medxinfo-error.log
    CustomLog C:/_MySites/logs/medxinfo-access.log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>          DocumentRoot 

"C:/_MySites/docs/realwebonlinenet"

    ServerName www.realwebonline.net             DirectoryIndex 

index.html index.html.var index.htm index.php

       ErrorLog C:/_MySites/logs/realwebonlinenet-error.log
    CustomLog C:/_MySites/logs/realwebonlinenet-access.log common
   </VirtualHost>

You have to know that the FIRST Virtual host will be the one used 

if www is

not put in front of the domain ( That is, if there is no 

HOST/SERVER name,

just a domain). In your case, and with the above example, if your main

domain is realwebonline, typing in a browser "realwebonline.net" 

should

bring the medxinfo page, as there is no matching ServerName. And 

that is

normal and documented.

Once you got that working as I describe, put back your ServerAlias

directive. But at least, you wil have sorted out the VirtualHost 

stuff!

Bernard
===
> Is there a difference between
> #DocumentRoot "C:/_MySites/docs/medxinfo" and
> #DocumentRoot "C:\ _MySites\docs\medxinfo"?
> i.e. will it make a difference if I use backslashes or forward
> slashes?

I think Apache prefer the first (slash instead of backslash, but 

that is

not your problem). Your problem is that you want to use domain names
instead of fully qualified server names.

Bernard
===
Johan

> Here is the script as it is now - it still does not work

Stupid question: Have you restarted Apache?
Something is not making any sense, here, if you have.

Are you sure you don't have the same html file in both directories? 

I don't

want you to feel offended by my questions, but I have been playing

extensively with name based virtual hosts in Apache, and never seen 

it NOT

work, so far...

Bernard
===
Hi
I am not offended - anything to just solve this problem. And thx for
all the trouble you have gone to up to now!
Yes I restart Apache every time.
And it works internally. So the script vh.conf actually works, it
finds the correct html page everytime. But only inside the router, not
from the outside world.
The DNS2Go Clients points to realwebonline.net
At godaddy:
realwebonline.net points to DNS2Go's Name Servers and medx.net is
Forwarded to http://www.realwebonline.net using GoDaddys own default
NameServers. And the mask is www.medx.info
So when you type in www.medx.info godaddy sends it to
http://www.realwebonline.net. So when it gets to my router (the router
setup points to 1.0.0.2 (which is the IP address of my internal
webserver called rcserv1) it gets redirected to 1.0.0.2 - but by then
it is looking for http://www.realwebonline.net and not www.medx.info?
So that is why it ALWAYS and ONLY shows the realwebonline.net webpage?
See attachments.
Thx
Johan

Hi Apache User List
So far my problem has not resolved.

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