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wesman00
Joined: 10 Jan 2020
Posts: 9
Location: United States
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 Posted: Sun 05 Jun '22 21:29 Post subject: Trouble with virtual hosts going to the wrong document root |
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I installed pterodactyl on my server to streamline dedicated game server creation and during the installation, I set the virtual host to pterodactyl.mydomain.com. When going to this subdomain everything works including SSL so that's amazing. When I go to mydomain.com expecting to see the default Apache "It works" page, it instead gives me an SSL warning saying that the certificate doesn't match and I click proceed and it sends me to the login page for pterodactyl as if I had gone to pterodactyl.mydomain.com instead. The same happens when I type my public IP address (or local when on the same network) into my browser and I'm sent to the pterodactyl login page after clicking proceed on the SSL warning. However, when I go to www.mydomain.com I see the "it works" page. I own another domain pointed at the same server and IP address and when I go to domain2.com it sends me to the pterodactyl login page when I was expecting again to be sent to the default "it works" page since I don't have a virtual host set up yet for the second domain.
Inside my /etc/apache2/sites-available/ directory I have files called 000-default.conf default-ssl.conf pterodactyl.conf and mydomain.conf and I don't have one for my other domain yet but these are all enabled in sites-enabled.
Inside 000-default.conf:
| Code: | <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me@mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/mydomain
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost> |
Inside pterodactyl.conf:
| Code: | <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName pterodactyl.mydomain.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName pterodactyl.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/pterodactyl/public"
AllowEncodedSlashes On
php_value upload_max_filesize 100M
php_value post_max_size 100M
<Directory "/var/www/pterodactyl/public">
Require all granted
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
SSLEngine on
[ssl stuff is here but this post is getting long]
</VirtualHost> |
Inside mydomain.conf:
| Code: | <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me@mydomain.com
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/mydomain
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost> |
I copied the "it works" page into /var/www/mydomain so I think I should see it when I go to mydomain.com. My goal right now is to have mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com point to documents hosted in /var/www/mydomain and to have mydomain2 point to documents I will eventually create in /var/www/mydomain2. I also want to make it so if a client accesses my site from my public IP address they are met with the default apache page. I don't plan on hosting anything there besides the "it works" page. What am I doing wrong? |
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tangent
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Joined: 16 Aug 2020
Posts: 348
Location: UK
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| Posted: Mon 06 Jun '22 21:00 Post subject: |
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Your post shows a non-secure and secure configuration for pterodactyl.mydomain.com, whilst all other sites are non-secure. So are your problem client requests secure or non-secure? If secure, then they'll be processed by the only secure configuration you've got, which is for pterodactyl.mydomain.com. Hence the certificate challenge if the client is using a different site hostname, in which case believe you'll need some additional secure sites configuring.
Check the virtual host documentation https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#virtualhost to understand how Apache handles server names, server aliases and default hosts, and use the command "httpd -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS" to show the virtual host configuration apache is actually using. |
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