Re: mixing dynamic and static virtual host definitions

Matt Price <matt.price@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:07:15 -0400

 On 10-10-23 09:33 AM, Eric Covener wrote:

1) if the new stanza is placed above the old one, then ALL traffic arriving
at this server is directed to  /home/drupal-commons/drupal_commons.
2) if the new stanza goes below the old, it is ignored entirely (this is
what I expected).

You need 1  "NameVirtualHost *:80" to tell Apache to do name-based
vhosts on those vhosts.   Then keep the generic one listed first, so
it will be the default for *:80.

(You might have "NameVirtualHost *" in your debian conf, but it needs
to be a literal match.)

I have one NameVirtualHost *:80 which is in 

/etc/apache2/conf.d/ports.conf -- this is read before my site-specific 

conf stuff, I'm pretty sure.

I guess I don't quite understand what you're recommending.  Won't the 

generic stanza, which has dynamic matching:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        UseCanonicalName    Off
        VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%0
        Options All
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteRule ^/wp-uploads/(.*)$ /var/www/wp-uploads/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1
</VirtualHost>

pr-empt any later stanza?  I thought that was the expected behaviour, 

and it explained to me why I have trouble when I put it first.  But if 

the site-specific stanza for the new drupal stie goes first,

<VirtualHost *:80>
            DocumentRoot /home/drupal-commons/drupal_commons
            ServerName drupalsite.example.com
</VirtualHost>

then it pre-empts everything (not what I expected, since I'm using 

ServerName, which I thought limited the application of this stanza to 

instances in which HTTP_HOST matches. ServerName.    Is the problem 

perhaps with the globbing in the directive declaration?  If so I don't 

see how to fix it, since I can't differentiate by IP (only one IP on 

this machine).

Thanks again for all your help.  Best,
Matt

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