Re: Re: Enabling SSL on VirtualHosts Revisited

[Jonathan Mast <jhmast.developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Frank, I've always used the ServerName directive, here's what my configs look like:
NameVirtualHost foo.mysite.com:80
<VirtualHost foo.mysite.com:80>
    ServerName   foo.mysite.com
    
</VirtualHost>

NameVirtualHost foo.mysite.com:443
<VirtualHost foo.mysite.com:443>
    ServerName   foo.mysite.com
    
    SSL Stuff...
</VirtualHost>

My question was specifically why putting the hostname as opposed to the addr in the NameVirtualHost was discouraged in the docs (they don't explain it any further)?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Frank Gingras <francois.gingras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jonathan Mast wrote:

OK, so I added NameVirtualHost foo.mysite.com:80 and NameVirtualHost
foo.mysite.com:443 above their respective sections and it seems to work
despite not being recommended as per the docs, but this was the only way to
do it because all my domains: mysite.com, othersite.com, etc point to a
single IP.

Any idea on why using hostnames in NameVirtualHost directives is not
recommended?  Is this something that could come back and bite me?

Thanks for the help!

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Philip Wigg <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

Possibly the information you need is here:-

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html

When adding a name-based Virtual Host the...

"Main host goes away

If you are adding virtual hosts to an existing web server, you must
also create a <VirtualHost> block for the existing host. The
ServerName and DocumentRoot included in this virtual host should be
the same as the global ServerName and DocumentRoot. List this virtual
host first in the configuration file so that it will act as the
default host."

Cheers,
Phil.

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Jonathan,

Using a hostname in the <VirtualHost> line will active DNS resolution for EVERY HTTP request. Surely, you don't want that to happen.

Instead, use a ServerName in your virtual host.

Frank.

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