ServerName directive in a VirtualHost container

["Yashesh Bhatia" <yasheshb@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

  I have the following setup

Fedora Core 6
Apache 2.2.3


In my httpd.conf file i have the following
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ServerRoot "/opt/httpd-2.2.3"
Listen 80
# ServerName - not used since i'm using Name based virtual hosts
# DocumentRoot -         -  ditto -
<Directory />
   Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride None
   Order deny,allow
   Deny from all
</Directory>
# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
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and in the httpd-vhosts.conf i have

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NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.11:80

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.11:80>
 ServerName bfc11.venuslabs.int
 DocumentRoot "/opt/httpd/htdocs"

 <Directory "/opt/httpd/htdocs">
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from 192.168.1.
   #Allow from all

   <FilesMatch "^config\.inc\.php">
     Order allow,deny
     Deny from all
   </FilesMatch>
 </Directory>

</VirtualHost>
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and in the /etc/hosts file i have the following
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# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
::1     bfc11.venuslabs.int     bfc11   localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.1.11 bfc11.venuslabs.int   bfc11
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Now when i try to access the url http://bfc11.venuslabs.int/ it gives a message
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server

but if i change the http-vhosts.conf file to use
 ServerName www.bfc11.venuslabs.int
instead of
 ServerName bfc11.venuslabs.int

and change the /etc/hosts file to use
192.168.1.11 www.bfc11.venuslabs.int   bfc11
instead of
192.168.1.11 bfc11.venuslabs.int   bfc11

i'm able to access the url http://www.bfc11.venuslabs.int

what could i be doing wrong with the ServerName bfc11.venuslabs.int ?
any pointers ?

thanks a bunch.

yashesh bhatia.

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