André Warnier wrote: > J. Greenlees wrote: > [...] > As slightly off-topic, I would like to add a note : > > Because of the way in which VirtualHosts work, with the first-defined > VHost being the one handling all requests which somehow are "wrong", > it is often difficult to sort out where such problems are coming from. > To avoid this, I usually define a first Vhost that has some non-real > DNS ServerName (e.g. ServerName defaulthost), specifically to catch > requests that arrive at the server with an invalid hostname (for > example someone entering "http://(server-ip-address)". That one has a > DocumentRoot containing a single html index page, which shows clearly > that the caller shouldn't do that. It also has its own separate logfiles. > That helps sorting out the "wrong" calls from the "good" calls. > > In your case, that would be something like : > > <VirtualHost *:80> > ServerName default > DocumentRoot /home/defaulthost/docs > DirectoryIndex DontDoThat.html > ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/defaulthost-error_log > CustomLog /var/log/httpd/defaulthost-access_log common > </VirtualHost> > > <VirtualHost *:80> > ServerAdmin > DocumentRoot /home/jaqui/public_html > ServerName dev.runic-hosting.com > ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/dev.runic-hosting.com-error_log > CustomLog /var/log/httpd/dev.runic-hosting.com-access_log common > </VirtualHost> > > <VirtualHost *:80> > ServerAdmin > DocumentRoot /home/dawnfyre/public_html > ServerName dev.jaqui-greenlees.net > ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/dev.jaqui-greenlees.net-error_log > CustomLog /var/log/httpd/dev.jaqui-greenlees.net-access_log common > </VirtualHost> > > <VirtualHost *:80> > ServerAdmin > DocumentRoot /home/shawan/public_html > ServerName dev.shawanspage.com > ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/dev.shawanspage.com-error_log > CustomLog /var/log/httpd/dev.shawanspage.com-access_log common > </VirtualHost> > > Since "default" is not a valid DNS name, nobody would ever get to your > server using "http://default";. But that host would catch calls to > "http://ip-address-of-your-server";, and also re-directed calls that > somehow do not have a "Host:" header, or an invalid one (like possibly > the result of wrong re-directs). > And in its logfile, you would have these calls isolated from the > explicit calls to your host "dev.runic-hosting.com". > > well, I like that idea. found out that both the second and third vhost containers are not being read. changed the conf to have the hostname specified rather than the *:80 which apachectl give this warning: apachectl stop [Wed Dec 31 04:14:38 2008] [warn] NameVirtualHost dev.jaqui-greenlees.net:80 has no VirtualHosts [Wed Dec 31 04:14:38 2008] [warn] NameVirtualHost dev.shawanspage.com:80 has no VirtualHosts apachectl start [Wed Dec 31 04:15:23 2008] [warn] NameVirtualHost dev.jaqui-greenlees.net:80 has no VirtualHosts [Wed Dec 31 04:15:23 2008] [warn] NameVirtualHost dev.shawanspage.com:80 has no VirtualHosts ok, going back to the *:80 got rid of the warnings. but now only the default is working. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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