Topic: 403 Error on Virtual host

[redneckradioman]

Hey guys I'm using Vertrigo 2.30 which in turn uses Apache 2.2.26 as part of its stack I am trying to set up virutal host on Windows 7 home premium.
in httpd.conf I have uncommented Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf in C\:Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts I have

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
198.0.65.217 talknowradio.com # www
198.0.65.217 paranormalpalaceradio.comcastbiz.net # vhost

in C:\Program Files (x86)\VertrigoServ\Apache\conf\vertrigo.conf I have


<Directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\VertrigoServ\www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from All
</Directory>

and

<Directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\VertrigoServ\www\vhost">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from All
</Directory>

Also in the WWW folder I alread have the vhost and site folder with index.html already inside all having read write permission


In conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf I have

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@talknowradio.com
DocumentRoot "C:/program files (x86)/vertrigoserv/www"
ServerName talknowradio
ServerAlias www.talknowradio.com
</VirtualHost>


<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@talknowradio.com
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files (x86)/VertrigoServ/www/vhost"
ServerName paranormalpalaceradiocomcastbiznet
ServerAlias www.paranormalpalaceradio.comcastbiz.net
<Directory "c:/vhost">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

my primary domain still works perfectly but the virtual host I created keeps loading 403 error page I have checked the Apache error log and I found two instanses of

[Tue Dec 31 08:33:29 2013] [error] [client 198.0.65.217] script 'C:/Program Files (x86)/VertrigoServ/www/vhost/modules.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: http://paranormalpalaceradio.comcastbiz.net/

I have no clue where or why its reading a module.php file granted I do use Nuke Evolution on my primary site but the only page in the virual host folder is a index.html I have checked and double checked can someone please help before I'm bald lol

[Anaksunaman]

Oh noes! Not bald!

Seriously, though, 403 Forbidden is often the signs of Apache trying to reach a directory where it has no access. I noticed that you have:

[Anaksunaman]

http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?p=26411

This would seem to indicate that indeed the server cannot find your virtual host DocumentRoot.

[redneckradioman]

Sorry I lost my place and had not meant to start a second thread I get ahead of myself sometimes anyway

I am running my vhost inside the Vertrigo www folder I had a feeling I may have too lol I made the corrections you mentioned I now have this in my vhost.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@talknowradio.com
DocumentRoot "C:/program files (x86)/vertrigoserv/www"
ServerName talknowradio
ServerAlias www.talknowradio.com
</VirtualHost>


<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@talknowradio.com
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files (x86)/VertrigoServ/www/vhost"
ServerName paranormalpalaceradiocomcastbiznet
ServerAlias www.paranormalpalaceradio.comcastbiz.net
<Directory "C:/Program Files (x86)/VertrigoServ/www/vhost">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>


and I now have this

<Directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\VertrigoServ\www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from All
</Directory>

<Directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\VertrigoServ\www\vhost">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from All
</Directory>

in my vertrigo.conf




and it still pulls page cannot be displayed nothing showing in the error log just checked

[glsmith]

Whatever editor you are using, right click on the icon and choose "Start as Administrator"

Go have a look at your conf files, are they showing what you are expecting to see?

[Anaksunaman]

All right. Let's try this again.

In vertrigo.conf added two new directories:

[redneckradioman]

Well I was afraid to go with site 1 and site2 for fear of messing things up but I went ahead and modified my virtualhost contain er by the way I got another domain to be sure so its now talknow radio and multiplicity radio anyway I'm getting bot domains to load talknowradio.com

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@talknowradio.com
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files (x86)/VertrigoServ/www"
ServerName talknowradio.com
ServerAlias www.talknowradio.com * talknowradio.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@talknowradio.com
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files (x86)/VertrigoServ/www/vhost/multiplicityradiocovu"
ServerName multiplicityradio.co.vu
ServerAlias www.multiplicityradio.co.vu * multiplicityradio.co.vu
</VirtualHost>

now that both load the same site how do we get them to load thier individual sites?

[Anaksunaman]

I am glad to hear things are going slightly smoother.

I am unsure of what you want your final set up to be but here it goes.

Ideally, if you want two completely separate sites (e.g. 100% unique content on each), the current folder set up you have listed should work fine. For talknowradio.com, put content in the www folder as defined in your httpd-vhosts.conf. In your set up above, www/vhost/multiplicityradiocovu would be the second site's root folder, so you would put all your content for that site there. Each root folder should have its own main index.html file (or whatever is defined to be the default document served by your set up). Be aware, however, that the way you have nested your files will likely allow the URL talknowradio.com/vhost/multiplicityradiocovu/. This URL will directly access the same site as multiplicityradio.co.vu. If you use separate folders as I did in my example above, you will avoid this (and no, using separate folders should not break anything .)

So, if I were to make a suggestion about the set up, I would use something like:

[Anaksunaman]

Oops, almost forgot to ask... are you still using the comcastbiz.net name? Because if this is what you are interested in using (vs. the multiplicityradio.co.vu domain for purposes other than testing), there may be extra steps. Apologize, but clarify if I assumed incorrectly in my previous post.

[redneckradioman]

Sorry I have not responded in a while got busy but the good news is I know have the virual host working great thank you for everything

[redneckradioman]

Hey guys turns out that although I have my virtual servers upand running there is a discripancy none of my virtual host will load in a browser if you type www. into the url they work fine as long as the url is just http:// my main domain can be with or without the www but its the only one I'm putting the urls below so you can see what I mean

http://www.talknowradio.com/
http://yugiohduelnet.com/
http://multiplicityradio.com/
http://multiplicityradio.co.vu/

As you can see Talknow Radio is the only one that will load both way with or without the www

Any ideas folks?

[Anaksunaman]

There could be a couple issues here.

First, with http://www.yugiohduelnet.com/ (vs. without the www) I see an error of:

[redneckradioman]

Ok doing that enabled Yugioh Duelnet to use both http:// and www and Talknow Radio to use www but when Talknow Radio uses http:// it goes to Yugioh Duelnets page

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@talknowradio.com
DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files (x86)\VertrigoServ\www"
ServerName WWW
ServerAlias www.talknowradio.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@talknowradio.com
DocumentRoot "C:\vhost\yugiohduelnet"
ServerName vhost
ServerAlias * yugiohduelnet.com
</VirtualHost>

The other two site where unaffected by anychanges

[Anaksunaman]

All right. Clean slate.

Since it seems the catchalls may be giving issues, especially based on your last post, here is the recommendation:

[redneckradioman]

That made it worse the only thing that worked after that was the www.talknowradio and the http://www.talknowradio.com all others went to page cannot be displayed

[Anaksunaman]

Well that's not supposed to happen.

The conclusion seems to be then, if your httpd-vhosts.conf file is set up correctly, that your DNS (Domain Name Service) for those sites isn't.

How you approach this will depend a lot on who is hosting your DNS for these sites, but in essence you need to make sure that each site has one or more prefixes specified as belonging to that domain. In this case, you need a www prefix listed in your basic DNS providers configuration files.

If your are using domain forwarding through your registrar, they would most likely handle the default DNS for the domain and the changes would need to be handled there. If it's a third party managed DNS provider, the changes would need to be made there.

Here's a screenshot to help give you an idea of what you are looking for. The first is from a domain registrar with URL forwarding to a dynamic DNS service (you still add prefixes with the registrar in this case), the second is from a hosting company control panel and the third is from a third party (non-dynamic) managed DNS provider:

http://s9.postimg.org/ovc6boi6n/sub.png



If you are unsure about your DNS set up (who provides it, etc) we can work from there.

And just for refernce, following httpd-vhosts.conf has been tested with three live sites and works fine for me under VertrigoServ 2.30. DNS resolution for www is set up correctly so the www prefixes work fine:

[redneckradioman]

Thanks I'll check into it