Topic: Problem with virtual host config

[mikewooz]

Hello everyone. I am trying to setup my LAMP stack... I've made it to the A part, haha, but am currently at a hurdle. When I attempt to log into one or the other web site, I am unable to access the site. I followed a couple tutorials, one on Digital Ocean and another on LowEndBox. I created 2 different directories under /var/www/ and I created 2 separate .conf files for the 2 websites. I reloaded after setting up my .conf files and while everything seems correct, I'm not able to login.

If there is someone willing to help me out, I would appreciate it greatly. I had a similar problem a few months ago where I just hung up the towel, but I don't want to do that anymore as I want a fully functioning web server.

Thanks a million,
Mike

[James Blond]

[mikewooz]

James, when I type in my server IP address in the browser, I see the Apache default page. When I type my www.digioffice.com into the browser, I get server ip address cannot be found. I have edited the /etc/hosts file by adding both of the websites I'm trying to configure. Per several tutorials, I added 2 lines with my ip address and then the dummy domain names.

Also, most of the tutorials have you "a2dissite" the default and "a2ensite" the virtual sites. It is not a problem, BUT why is it necessary to leave the default site up? Why can't you just leave it up as a fallback?

In my sites-available folder, I can see the default and 2 additional sites I'm trying to serve.

I can see the 3 sites in the sites-enabled if I "a2ensite" them and also they are gone if I "a2dissite" them. The only thing that I am possibly picking up is I might need to go into the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file and edit some things. HOWEVER, I also saw where some said that you NEVER EVER edit this file as Apache will make the necessary edits automatically.

It seems these tutorials are flawed in some ways as I don't think I should be having these kinda of problems. When I write technically, I usually assume the recipient does not know ANY of the steps to make the desired proccess work... meaning I believe there are likely some assumptions that should not be left out with each tutorial.

Long story short, I believe I'm ALMOST there, but need a couple different settings adjusted to make this work for me.

Thanks for your response and have a great day.

[James Blond]

After a2ensite did you restart apache?

Can you ping the domain name on the command line / terminal?

also
sudo /usr/sbin/httpd -S

or

sudo /usr/sbin/apache2 -S

will do a config test including a check of your vhosts.