Re: Weird virtual host error

[Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Richard Heyes wrote:

> To: php-install@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: Richard Heyes <richardh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:  Weird virtual host error
>
> Hi,
>
> Got a strange error to do with Apache and virtual hosts. 
> http://www.bioscience.co.uk and http://staging.bioscience.co.uk are both 
> the same machine and PHP is clearly working on the default (www...) but 
> not on the (only) virtual host (staging...)
>
> The virtual host config is thus:
>
> <VirtualHost 62.233.101.227:80>
>        ServerName staging.bioscience.co.uk
>
>        DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/staging/htdocs
>
>        CustomLog logs/staging.bioscience.co.uk-access_log combined
>        ErrorLog logs/staging.bioscience.co.uk-error_log
> </VirtualHost>
>
> Is this even correct? Thanks.
>
> --
> Richard Heyes
> http://www.phpguru.org

Hi Richard. Maybe you would like to use my httpd.conf VH 
definitions as a template to setup your own VH?

# virtual host definitions

# needs to be the IP number of the network card interface
# NOT my public IP address 81.168.74.150
NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.1

#-----------------------------------------------------------------

# default virtual host

#<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1>
#  ServerName www.karsites.net
#</VirtualHost>

# default virtual host - karsites

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1>
# any required directives not set in this VH container
# will default to the global values
# set outside this or any other VH containers
  ServerName www.karsites.net
  ServerAlias karsites.net
  DocumentRoot /websites/live/karsites
</VirtualHost>

<Directory /websites/live/karsites>
  # DirectoryIndex /home/anyuser/newsite-ETA.php
  DirectoryIndex /home/anyuser/home.php
  Options None
  Order deny,allow
  Allow from all
  php_admin_flag display_errors OFF
</Directory>

#-----------------------------------------------------------------
# virtual host www.php-debuggers.net

<Directory /websites/live/php-debuggers>
  # DirectoryIndex /home/anyuser/newsite-ETA.php
  DirectoryIndex /home/anyuser/home.php
  Options None
  # Options Indexes
  Order deny,allow
  Allow from all
  php_admin_flag display_errors OFF
</Directory>

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1>
  ServerName www.php-debuggers.net
  ServerAlias php-debuggers.net
  ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  DocumentRoot /websites/live/php-debuggers
</VirtualHost>

#-----------------------------------------------------------------
# virtual host www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk

<Directory /websites/live/raised-from-the-dead>
  # DirectoryIndex /home/anyuser/newsite-ETA.php
  DirectoryIndex /home/anyuser/home.php
  Options None
  # Options Indexes
  Order deny,allow
  Allow from all
  php_admin_flag display_errors OFF
</Directory>

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1>
  ServerName www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk
  ServerAlias raised-from-the-dead
  ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  DocumentRoot /websites/live/raised-from-the-dead
</VirtualHost>

and my /etc/host file looks like:

# Fedora 8 /etc/host file
#
# hosts         This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
#               mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem.  It is mostly
#               used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
#               On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
#               "named" name server.
# Syntax:
#
# IP-Address  Full-Qualified-Hostname  Short-Hostname
#

127.0.0.1       localhost

# special IPv6 addresses
::1             localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback

fe00::0         ipv6-localnet

ff00::0         ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1         ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2         ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3         ipv6-allhosts

10.0.0.1        www.karsites.net   karsites.net  karsites
10.0.0.1        www.php-debuggers.net   php-debuggers.net 
php-debuggers
10.0.0.1        www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk 
raised-from-the-dead.org.uk
10.0.0.1        raised-from-the-dead

Using the above domain name mappings allows me to access my 
virtual host definitions from localhost. Without these 
mappins my machine would try an internet DNS lookup on my 
own hostnames - which will not work.

HTH

Keith Roberts

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