Topic: virtual host stopped working

[bbxrider]

honest i didn't touch it
running this on xppro, apache 2.2.4
i had 3 vhosts working fine and now only the 'virtualhostbase' passthru to a zope server works
i can ping the other 2 virtualhost domains ok, so getting to my router ok.
there are no error messages either in my apache error log or the error logs for the 2 virtual sites that don't come up
i tested that if i address my browser with just "localhost" it will bring up the first virtual site in httpd.conf, literally the first one coded there, i can switch them to have either one come up.
no matter what order they are in, the 'virtualHostBase' (to zope) virtual host always comes up
any ideas what might have gone wrong and yes i have done an xp reboot
bbxrider

[James Blond]

Did you put the hostnames in in hosts file or do you use IP based hosts?

[bbxrider]

ah, ip based hosts, and i have an entry for the job1data.com domain, 127......., so that explains why that domain comes up locally and not the other one, so either something in my .conf or xp is blocking remote access ?

[James Blond]

The question is: Do you have any DNS server? If not Browsers from the internet can resolve the name to the IP.
Check if your server is reachable from the internet you can try:
telnet _external_IP_ 80

e.g.
telnet 212.55.33.11 80

[bbxrider]

yes i have a dns server, i assume that has been working all along since i have been able to ping, but i have found i spoke too soon
turns out i can access all sites ok externally, again they are all virtual host
what is frustrating and hard to understand is the apache machine access and lan access
from apache machine
-'localhost' and apache machine lan addr serves up the first site in the virtual host list
-the only domain url that comes up is the proxy pass to zope
-there are entries in my hosts file for 127.0.0.1 for all domain names
from a pc on my lan
-no domain names get served
-local lan address does not get served, i'm not getting the actual error as a frustrating people pc page comes up
-telnet to domain_name 80='couldn't open a connection to host.....'
-telnet to lan addr ie 192.... 80=hang, unless i type in login, then get 'IETF//DD HTML 2.0............your browser sent a request this server could not understand....

isn't there some .conf settings that would allow access both from the apache machine and other machines on the local lan??
t hanks for your replies, this is not so straightforward
bob

[James Blond]

For your local PC You can to 2 things. Edit the hosts file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
like

[bbxrider]

thanks, for your help
i did have entries for domains with 'www' but not without, e.g.
i had
127.0.0.1 www.mydomain.com
but not
127.0.0.1 mydomain.com
and i already had 127.0.0.1 localhost
so that explains some weird behavior with seeming to resolve sporadically. now with all the entries in hosts, it works ok

not sure what you mean by this:
-second thing is that you set your router or networkcard to use the DNS sever which knows the domain name and your vhosts
-my router gets its url via dhcp and it is also provisioned with the the url for a dns server for the router gateway