Attempted Apache2 subdomains, failed hard

[_goatboy_]

Earlier today, I attempted to set up local-only subdomains on my home server for testing purposes. After trying several different methods, I decided to sleep on it and try again tomorrow. I decided to check out the site one more time to make sure nothing went wrong and as fate would have it, a lot went wrong.

Right now, I cannot view the site through a browser on another machine. The internal IP is 192.168.11.6, and that brings up an Object Not Found error. However, if I try to view 192.168.11.6/~goatboy (or some other user) it works just fine.

I'll include my "sites-allowed/default" below, for what it's worth. I've looked through it a few times, but since I'm not sure what a "correct" file looks like, I don't know what to look for.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

UserDir public_html

DocumentRoot /var/www/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes
XBitHack On
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
AddType image/x-icon .ico
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>Other items of note:



I have restored my "hosts" file to the best of my knowledge, and can supply it if needed (ditto any other file, save /etc/passwd|shadow ;])
My permissions are set correctly, since I did not change them before the error occurred. I temporarily set the /var/www/ directory to 777 to see if this was the case, and it is not.
I have made sure the files exist within the DocumentRoot (/var/www/) directory
Software:

OS: Ubuntu 9.10
Apache: 2.1.12



Does anyone see any immediate errors that would cause this Object Not Found error? If so, how would I fix it? I realize these posts are often frustrating and I am a little ashamed to be asking for help, but once again, anything else you need (within reason) will be supplied.

[Adina]

I'm not sure if it helps, but this is the default sites-availible file that I use.


NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
#ServerName yourdomainname.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /var/www/yourdomain/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/yourdomain/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
ServerSignature On

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

[nsche]

Goatboy..
I note that you do not seem to have a Servername line in your virtual hosts declaration. If I were you I would start making it work using a virtual hosts declaration containing only the minimal needed like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
<Directory "/somewhere">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ServerName MyServer
DocumentRoot /MyServerDir
</VirtualHost>


I then put an entry in /etc/hosts like this

127.0.0.1 localhost MyServer

I can then access the server at http://MyServer. I also have a default virtual host (part of the apache2 setup) that catches the http://localhost traffic.

YMMV
Norm