Re: Update httpd.conf file: Apache virtualhost not working behind firewall.

[Chip Upsal <Chip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tend to agree...but i have tried all the documented and undocumented 
VirutalHost setups i could find. Furthermore, it is bothersome that the 
VirtualHost work fine when the HTTP server is not behind the IPTables 
firewall.

Andrea Rossato wrote:

> Chip Upsal wrote:
>
> > I doubt it is strictly an apache problem as if we remove the firewall 
> > and
> > assign the external ip address to the server it all works well.
>
> if you solved the iptables problem and you are properly forwarding 
> traffic to the internal box, that's probably an apache issue: as far 
> as i understand you are creating a name based virtul host: apache 
> should look in the _http_headers_ to respond with the correct web 
> server name. (http headers are indeed in packet payloads and iptables 
> will not touch them when S/DNATting).
>
> so:
>
> NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.2
> <VirtualHost 192.168.0.2>
>    ServerName site4.company.com
>    ServerAlias site4*
>    ServerAdmin admin@company.com
>    DocumentRoot D:/web_root/foo4
>    ErrorLog logs/site4.cyberwolf.com-error_log
>    CustomLog logs/site4.cyberwolf.com-access_log common
> </VirtualHost>
>
> hope that this is going to work (is working for me, though).
> andrea