Topic: vhosts doesnot work, how can I see what hostinfo apache gets

[joelbox]

Hi greetings from Groningen,

I have been trying to get the virtualhost to work correctly but, nothing seems to help.

This is the case:
I have several domains registered at eurodns. www.mysite.dk, www.mysite.eu, www.mysite.nl. These domains are redirected to the IP of my server. The Apache 2.2 server is up and running (on a vista machine) and serving pages. My server is behind a router. I want each domain to show a different site.

I have setup virtual hosts as:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/drupal-5.7"
ServerName www.mysite.dk
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/eu"
ServerName www.mysite.eu
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/dutch"
ServerName www.mysite.nl
</VirtualHost>


But no matter what url I type in explorer I always get to the C:/wamp/www/drupal-5.7 site.

I studied the logs, and i get the idea that the servername is not send by eurodns. Is that possible? How can I check what url comes in and what apache should do with it?

I would appreciate any help, this issue is now bogging me for days.
Joel

[Steffen]

Try:


NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName just_a_name
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/unknown"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.mysite.dk
ServerAlias mysite.dk
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/drupal-5.7"
</VirtualHost>

etc. etc.

note:
The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block. You can put an error page in the doc root there.


Steffen

[joelbox]

Hi Steffen great approach,

Gave it a few tries. This is what happens.

I inserted localhost as a virtualhost aswell. Going to url localhost indeed lands me on the directory as set.

But my external url www.mysite.dk now ends up with the page not found error.

from this i learn that the virtual host conf is working and use by apache. But somehow the "www.mysite.dk" does not come through. How to check this?

[Steffen]

[joelbox]

Hi Steffen,
At the domain registrar you have two options of pointing the domain name to an IP.

One is using a frame, the new IP is inset into a frame.
the other is using a redirect. The DNS is set up to point to my IP directly.

I tested it with both options, with the same (no) result.

Can it have something to do with the case that i am connecting from my home network onto the webserver which is in this network? (That then no hostname www.mysite.dk is passed to apache to reckognise as virtual host)?

kind regards,
Joel

[joelbox]

At the registration organisation, I should have made settings as:

A-record <www.domainname.com> <IP address>


Using the a-records in stead of the redirect solved all issues.
thanks for all the help,
Joel