Topic: Virtual Hosts - Fixed (See final entry)

[OldManRiver]

All,

have the following in my VH section of httpd.conf, but not working on localhost machine:

[James Blond]

you may edit the hosts file with notepad

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

add

[OldManRiver]

[OldManRiver]

All,

Added this code

[James Blond]

That is that your PC know which IP it has to ask if you call that domain name. If not your PC asks the next DNS server which IP is behind that name. And the outside DNS servers don't know your hosts inside.
The vhosts in httpd.conf let apache know which domain it has and which documents are for that domain.

Hope you understand my bad english

[OldManRiver]

[James Blond]

AFAIK the second one is right.

[PipoDeClown]

u cant have portnumbers in your hosts file

[glsmith]

Actually, it's


127.0.0.1 localhost domain1 domain2 domain3

No ports, no commas

[OldManRiver]

[glsmith]

Well . .I've found that you need to have one VHost that is basically a duplicate of the main host part of the config.
So, whatever is the first "ServerName" and it's directory need to be repeated in the VHosts section.

So for instance, If the main document root is say
c:\www\somedir\public

then for my first virtual host I use

<VirtualHost _default_:80>
DocumentRoot c:/www/somedir/public
</VirtualHost>

This becomes a catchall domain when the host name being used is not known by Apache (or someone uses http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (your IP) so I would suggest not duplicating an actuall website unless you want stray requests going to it.


#Main Section
ServerName some.domain.com
DocumentRoot c:/www/somedir/public
<Directory c:/www/somedir/public>
Optiions Whatever
AllowOverride Whatever
Order whatever
<?Directory>


#VHosts Section
NameVirtualHosts:80

<VirtualHost _default_:80>
DocumentRoot c:/www/somedir/public
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot c:/www/mydomain/public_html
..
..
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.myotherdomain.com
DocumentRoot c:/www/myotherdomain/public_html
..
..
</VirtualHost>

etc. etc.

[OldManRiver]

Here is the actual code from the httpd.conf file:

[glsmith]

403 error?

Do you have a

<Directory "E:/Zips & Downloads/Linux/Ubuntu">
Options whatever
AllowOverride whatever
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

and

<Directory "E:/Manuals">
Options whatever
AllowOverride whatever
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


The ...
<Directory "E:/Local Files">
Options whatever
AllowOverride whatever
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
... in the main config covers the first 2 since they are both in "E:\local files" which leave the other two to fend for themselves. This should spit a line in your error log similar to "Client not allowed by configuration".
??

and try going from <VirtualHost localhost:80> to <VirtualHost *:80>
just to get things on an even keel


On another more IMHO note. I have a problem with "AllowOverride All"

Allowing an Options override allows a 3rd party to turn on ExecCGI. This could potentially be problematic on Win32 where you do not have suexec and UIDs and all that fun stuff. Anyone can roam through the server with the greatest of ease with the user permissions of Apache which by default are rather impressive. Call me paranoid! In your case no biggie, on a live server however not a good practice. IMHO of course.

[OldManRiver]

glsmith,

Your comment about AllowOverride all did the trick.

Just as soon as I commented out those lines it all started working.

I see you can only use this command on the primary PDC domain and nothing else.

Thanks for the tip!

Kudos!!