Topic: VirtualHosts displaying the proper page title, not content

[sewerraccoon]

I've been working on a server to prepare it for more than one website It will be hosting. I've got one domain name for the site that's already on it, and the domain name assigned to every machine in the school. Both of those names are forwarded to the machines single IP. When a new site is added, they'll take out another appropriate domain name for the site for us. I set one virtual host to host the page we already have set up, and to test the configuration out I made a simple HTML test page and assigned another virtual host to it. After a little bit of tweaking, I thought I had everything sussed out, but something strange started to happen. When I type in the name for the test site, I get the test site, that all works fine, but when I type in the name for the site we're already hosting, I get the proper title for the site (up in the browser title and the tab), but the content in the main window is that of the test site. I'm stumped. I checked all the sites files, i made sure that the virtual host was pointing to the correct document root, but couldn't find anything. Any input would be most appreciated. I don't have access to the machine right now, but I'll throw my virtual hosts config up in a post after this.

[sewerraccoon]

Ok, so here's the file that I'm using to define my VirtualHosts. My main apache config links to this file. I'm not sure if it matters, but the server is running Ubuntu 10.04. Just FYI

[glsmith]

In main conf file, what is the ServerName & DocumentRoot

[sewerraccoon]

Ok, here's my main configuration file. I don't think i've modified much of anything in here, the defaults seemed to be good enough. Sorry about the length

[glsmith]

Ok, looks like the one I wanted was Include /etc/apache2/httpd.conf


In there should be ServerName & a Document root. It is my guess that you are falling into the usual trap as many have before and many will in the future, specifically, what ever those are needs to be the first vhost in the list. Typically a;

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/whatever
</VirtualHost>

Is enough to satisfy the requirement noted under "Main host goes away"
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html

[sewerraccoon]

well, because of Ubuntu's different apache installation, there's nothing in that httpd.conf file. the I may be better off asking at Ubuntu's forums. The initial file I uploaded was "apache2.conf", which is the main config file in ubuntu. It then includes several smaller config files to configure different stuff.

[James Blond]

the main vhost config file is /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

[sewerraccoon]

Yeah, I do have the "default" vhost file in sites-available, but I also have my customized vhost file there too, which I then made a symlink to, which is located in the sites-enabled directory, as per Ubuntu's MO