Topic: virtual server not working

[bbxrider]

this is for apache 2.2.4, winxp pro, set up for php
i'm using a vanilla default http.conf, (until now) and added directives for a virtual host, but browser requests for the virtual host domain still comes up with (what i think of as the default or primary domain) default domain page, job1data.com.
i did create the mywarmbeach directory and have an index.htm page there, but am not sure if i have missed or made an error in the directive or need to change some thing else in my http.conf
once this is working do i need anything else for php to also be working in the virtual host domain?
any help much appreciated, thanks bbxrider


<VirtualHost www.mywarmbeach.com>
ServerAdmin bbxrider@job1data.com
DocumentRoot "C:/apache2/htdocs/mywarmbeach/"
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
ServerName www.mywarmbeach.com
ServerAlias mywarmbeach.com
ErrorLog C:/apache2/log/www.mywarmbeachcom-error_log
CustomLog C:/apache2/log/www.mywarmbeachcom-access_log
</VirtualHost>

[James Blond]

If you only want to reach your domain local you can the edit (notepad) the hosts file from your system.

C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

[tdonovan]

Do you have a NameVirtualHost directive in your httpd.conf file?

NameVirtualHost goes outside the <VirtualHost ...> directives, and it instructs Apache to use ServerName (like www.mywarmbeach.com ) instead of IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1) to select the correct virtual host.

-tom-

[bbxrider]

thank you for the replies
both domains, job1data.com and mywarmbeach.com point to my public ip.
my apache htdocs/index.htm (default from install) is currently served up for both domains
what i'm trying to do, is setup addressing browser to mywarmbeach.com with no slash, etc, and have htdocs/mywarmbeach/index.htm be returned. basically i think of establishing htdocs/mywarmbeach/ as the 'root' direectory for mywarmbeach.com access? did i say that right?
i would like to be able to access from localhost as well.
i did not have the namevirtualhost in my http.conf, but will (attempt) to add that to see if that makes the virtual host directives start working. i take it you need a namevirtualhost and virtualhost directives for each domain you want to serve without having to directly address with domain.com/targetAddr ? and its my understanding i can have apache serve mult domains from the same ip addr, i guess there is a practical limit based on processing capability of server machine and bandwidth available to the server machine. in my case the number of hits will be trivial

[bbxrider]

i tried this
nameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin bbxrider@job1data.com
DocumentRoot "C:/apache2/htdocs/mywarmbeach/"
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
ServerName www.mywarmbeach.com
ServerAlias mywarmbeach.com *.mywarmbeach.com
ErrorLog C:/apache2/log/www.mywarmbeach-error_log
# CustomLog C:/apache2/log/www.mywarmbeach-access_log
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin bbxrider@job1data.com
DocumentRoot "C:/apache2/htdocs/"
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
ServerName www.job1data.com
ServerAlias job1data.com *.job1data.com
ErrorLog C:/apache2/log/www.job1data-error_log
# CustomLog C:/apache2/log/www.mywarmbeach-access_log
</VirtualHost>
however still not working, seems simple enough from the documentation but obviously i'm missing something. when i restart there are no messages i see flash by in the cmd prmpt window and no error logs

[James Blond]

I think there is missing the port. in the containers and in Name vhsot
Also I miss container for the docs root inside

[tdonovan]

Your config seems like it should work, although technically there should not be trailing slashs in your DocumentRoot directories
- per the DocumentRoot docs.

This, however, is not the cause of your problem.

Please post the results of httpd -S -w as James Blond suggested.

Are your virtual host diretives in the C:\apache2\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf file?
If so - did you remember to uncomment the line:

# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

in your C:\apache2\conf\httpd.conf file?

-tom-

[bbxrider]

this is my current setup, at least as far as directives for virtual host
they are in my http.conf file not the .....\httpd-vhosts.conf file
is that where should be? i thought it was optional to put them there or http.conf? the include.....vhosts.conf line is commented out, seeing how i put the directives in http.conf

ServerRoot "C:/apache2"
Listen 80
DocumentRoot "C:/apache2/htdocs"
<Directory "C:/apache2/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin bbxrider@job1data.com
DocumentRoot C:/apache2/htdocs/mywarmbeach
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
ServerName www.mywarmbeach.com
ServerAlias mywarmbeach.com *.mywarmbeach.com
ErrorLog C:/apache2/log/www.mywarmbeach-error_log
# CustomLog C:/apache2/log/www.mywarmbeach-access_log
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin bbxrider@job1data.com
DocumentRoot C:/apache2/htdocs/job1data
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
ServerName www.job1data.com
ServerAlias job1data.com *.job1data.com
ErrorLog C:/apache2/log/www.job1data-error_log
# CustomLog C:/apache2/log/www.mywarmbeach-access_log
</VirtualHost>

i ran the httpd -S -w for the status of the current virt host setup, it seems to be looking ok?

VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server www.mywarmbeach.com (C:/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:228)
port 80 namevhost www.mywarmbeach.com (C:/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:228)
port 80 namevhost www.job1data.com (C:/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:237)
Syntax OK

what i find really strange is that if apache has my default server being mywarmbeach, how come i get the htdocs directory default page for mywarmbeach.com and not the mywarmbeach.com default page? (which of course is in the ..../mywarmbeach directory)

[tdonovan]

Puzzling!

I set up Apache 2.2.4 on Win2k in c:\apache2\ and cut & pasted your virtual host directives into my httpd.conf.
The only difference is my logs go in C:\apache2\logs\ with an "s".
i.e.

ErrorLog C:/apache2/logs/www.mywarmbeach-error_log

It worked fine for me, so unless it's the log directory name - the problem doesn't seem to be your config
- at least, not the directives that you posted.

-tom-

[bbxrider]

thanks, so much, evidently that was it, i just changed the paths to logs instead of log and voila.
can't believe after all the looking, changing, restarting, head scratching and posts that was it. when one time i did not have the path correct for DocumentRoot, the restart complained very clearly.
it seems really strange that the restart didn't complain about this basically wrong path, and the httpd -S status seemed to show everything ok, but in the end, virtual host was not working????????????

btw i used to live in milfah, kindah neahh wuhsta, right on north pond, it was a great setup, boat right there at the dock, when not frozen

[James Blond]

httpd -S checks only vhost config! use httpd -t to test the whole config, but vhosts