On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Minh Cao <minhcao123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am new to the web server .... please help me with > this 2 questions. > > > 1/ Setup the basic web server myhost.mydomain.com > 2/ Setup the virtual host www.mydomain.com > > > My linux system hostname is: myhost.mydomain.com > IP: 1.2.3.4 > DNS: www.mydomain.com CNAME myhost.mydomain.com > > > Please explain this: > If I use default DocumentRoot /var/www/html for > question #1, and use > VirtualHost with DocumentRoot /var/www/virtual for #2, > I no longer see the index.html file from > DocumentRoot of #1 > > > Question #1 does not asked to use the Virtual host. > Can I just use the default DocumentRoot to config the > web server OR > have to use the Virtual host ? I think you need to read this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html#using which tells you that you need a <VirtualHost> section for every host once you start to use NameVirtualHost. The DocumentRoot in the "main server" no longer has an effect. 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