Topic: Problem---Hosting multiple websites with Apache2

[ekancepts]

I am trying add three namebased virtual hosts in local apache2 webserver
OS ubuntu 10.10


The three sites are :www.site1.eka,www.site2.eka,www.site2.eka

The first i created a file is virtual.conf in conf.d directory its content is :
#
# we're running multiple virtual hosts.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80

Next i created following files in sites-available directory

www.site1.eka is as follows

#
#site1.eka (/etc/apache2/sites-available/www.site1.eka)
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@site1.eka
ServerName www.site1.eka
ServerAlias site1.eka

# Indexes + Directory Root.
DocumentRoot /var/www/projects/www.site1.eka/htdocs/
DirectoryIndex index.html
#DocumentRoot /var/www/projects/www.site1.eka/htdocs/

# CGI Directory
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/projects/www.site1.eka/cgi-bin/
<Location /cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>


# Logfiles
ErrorLog /var/www/projects/www.site1.eka/logs/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/projects/www.site1.eka/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

www.site2.eka is as follows:

#
#site2.eka (/etc/apache2/sites-available/www.site2.eka)
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@site2.eka
ServerName www.site2.eka
ServerAlias site2.eka

# Indexes + Directory Root.
DirectoryIndex index.html
DocumentRoot /var/www/projects/www.site2.eka/htdocs/

# CGI Directory
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/projects/www.site2.eka/cgi-bin/
<Location /cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>


# Logfiles
ErrorLog /var/www/projects/www.site2.eka/logs/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/projects/www.site2.eka/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

www.site3.eka is as follows

#
#site3.eka (/etc/apache2/sites-available/www.site3.eka)
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@site3.eka
ServerName www.site3.eka
ServerAlias site3.eka

# Indexes + Directory Root.
DirectoryIndex index.html
DocumentRoot /var/www/projects/www.site3.eka/htdocs/

# CGI Directory
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/projects/www.site3.eka/cgi-bin/
<Location /cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>


# Logfiles
ErrorLog /var/www/projects/www.site3.eka/logs/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/projects/www.site3.eka/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Then i edited hosts file in /etc

hosts is as follows:

14.96.78.172 eka-Lenovo-G560 # Added by NetworkManager
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 eka-Lenovo-G560 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
127.0.1.1 eka-Lenovo-G560

#vhosts
*:80 www.site1.eka
*:80 www.site2.eka
*:80 www.site3.eka

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Then i ran following commands

a2ensite www.site1.eka
a2ensite www.site2.eka
a2ensite www.site3.eka

Then i restarted apache /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

The output of apache2ctl -S
VirtualHost configuration:
127.0.0.1:80 127.0.0.1 (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:1)
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server www.site1.eka (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.site1.eka:4)
port 80 namevhost www.site1.eka (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.site1.eka:4)
port 80 namevhost www.site2.eka (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.site2.eka:4)
port 80 namevhost www.site3.eka (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.site3.eka:4)
Syntax OK

I also digged the site : dig www.site1.eka

; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> www.site1.eka
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 7507
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.site1.eka. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 8713 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2010121500 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 83 msec
;; SERVER: 121.242.190.210#53(121.242.190.210)
;; WHEN: Thu Dec 16 01:43:48 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 106


When i visit the url http://www.site1.eka/ in browser it says server not found.

[ekancepts]

The problem used with the help of Steve -- http://www.steve.org.uk/

These are changes he suggested

This is wrong:

> #vhosts
> *:80 http://www.site1.eka
> *:80 http://www.site2.eka
> *:80 http://www.site3.eka

In /etc/hosts you should add the IP addresses of the machines,e.g.

127.0.0.1 http://www.site1.eka site1.eka
127.0.0.1 http://www.site2.eka site2.eka
127.0.0.1 http://www.site3.eka site3.eka