Topic: Apache not working / subdomains problem

[ranger]

I have a couple of websites, each in its own directory on my D drive. I want to make a subdomain for each site.

I modified httpd.conf accordingly, but now Apache doesn't start anymore.

The error message (OS 10048) is: "only one usage of each socket address is permitted" "make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available"

OS is Windows, I edited httpd.conf so that in includes now the following lines:

DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs"
Listen 80
ServerName localhost
NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/sites/site1/"
ServerName site1.localhost
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

<Directory "D:/sites/site1/">
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>


<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/sites/site2/"
ServerName site2.localhost
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

<Directory "D:/sites/site2/">
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>



I added the subdomains in the HOST file in System32, which now contains:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 site1.localhost
127.0.0.1 site2.localhost



I don't understand why the server doesn't start in the first place...
Any clues?

[Steffen]

Looks like an instance of httpd.exe is still running. You can stop it in task manager.

Steffen

[ranger]

Thanks a lot!
Yes, now it's OK, except for one detail:
when I go to http://localhost in the browser, I am automatically redirected to "site1", which should be just a subdomain (site1.localhost).

I thought the default localhost would remain the same- C:/.../Apache2.2/htdocs

Do you know why this happens? Actually I would like to move the default root to D:/ApacheDocs directory.

[admin]

The first Virtual host is the default. Since you do not have a servername localhost is going to that one.


Make an extra virtual host as first one:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias 127.0.0.1
ServerAlias your extranal IP for instance
DocumentRoot C:/.../Apache2.2/htdocs
</VirtualHost>


Steffen

[ranger]

Now it's OK, great advice!

Thanks!