Topic: VHost of domain redirected to server isn't recognized

[chrisiwien]

For testing purposes i created a VHost with following contents (in my httpd-vhosts.conf are several vhosts defined):

[mrdj1024]

you might need to add a CNAME record for the redirection to work properly,you could sign into your DNS record control panel and add the record and try again.

[chrisiwien]

Thanks for your reply.

DNS entries: But why this is different? For the domain in my post "test.testserver.info" i only have do define an A record and it works.

I created for testing purposes another test domain with the hoster where i have created "test.testserver.info" - an it worked without any problems. So you are probably right, with the cname entry.

Log in to your panel... haha... usually, i am doing this, of course. In the case of "shop.domain.com" i have to talk to an administrator, who himself have to open a support ticket at the domain hosting company. Just a little communication nightmare...

[mrdj1024]

yeah sometimes a CNAME record is needed,i know www. don't work without a www CNAME record pointing to the actual domain
like www.yoursite.com dont work unless you CNAME
www(for the CNAME) then yoursite.com as the actual site name
then it works just fine

[chrisiwien]

Update: the „support“ team of the domain hoster has made an http redirect to the server ip, not a change in the DNS entries.

I am getting somehow frustrated now…

[mrdj1024]

a redirect isn't what you need
ask them for a CNAME record to be made,but if you have a free subdomain or have an actual domain name,you should be able to log in and add your records,i don't know why you dont have access to your record management system.
check these guys out they are great and are free for subdomains if you need one for a website
https://www.dynu.com/en-US/

[chrisiwien]

Of course, a http redirect is completely nonsense in this case.

But now the admin managed to change the DNS entry. Guess it will work now without CNAME, will see.

Btw., this hoster isn‘t free, but a large Austrian Internet company.

[Stray78]

Do you have a DNS A record? i have one for mydomain.com & *.mydomain.com. The wild card sends all subdomains to my server IP.

[chrisiwien]

Yes, NOW there is an A record. Problem was the URL redirection, that doesn‘t work.

Now with shop.domain.com A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx everything works fine.

[chrisiwien]

Perhaps you have also an answer to my second problem, i wrote about in my initial post: not the server main page is called, if a domain points to my server and no vhost for that domain is defined, but the first vhost in the httpd-vhosts.conf.

I don‘t know what’s wrong in my configuration.

[Stray78]

[chrisiwien]

Hey Stray78,

thanks for your answer.

Hm, putting the <Directory> section into the vHost declaration seems to me very logic... because the directory belongs to this vHost. It seems to work and, Apache doesn't throw any error if i restart the webserver. Is that still wrong or faulty?

Requier all denied... means not the vHost or main server page is not reachable. It means, that the user will see a 403 Forbidden message - wich is ok for me for the main server page. Eg. if you you call www.serverurl.com directly, you see a 403 Forbidden, so, if someone calls an URL pointing to my server, but which is unknown in httpd-vhosts.conf, this 403 page should be also presented.

But I will try your proposal.

In your answer you define an extra vHost for the main server page - this is new for me. And this has to be done? I thought, the main server page is reachable without any vHost declaration.

The section

[Stray78]

Yes it does make sense to put the directory section inside the vhost, I just never seen it done that way. I just kept it how the original config files were. If it works that's all that matters.

You are correct, Require all denied would end in a 403.

You do not have to create a vhost for the main webroot "htdocs". It was just an example.

And I have no clue about the fcgid stuff, I always have ran a thread safe module.

So here is your fix for going to wrong vhost...

So your vhost section looks fine. Mine did weird stuff too. If you type in the wrong subdomain it will send you to the first vhost. Not sure why it does that.

This works for me. In your vhost section use a wildcard ServerAlias directive.