Problems with LAMP Virtual Hosts

[Lars Noodén]

Check to make sure that what you have in ServerName matches the shortcut you actually put into /etc/hosts. If they do not match, then you will automatically get served the default site instead of the one you want. Making sure that ServerName is in harmony with /etc/hosts fixed the problem with my copies of your config files.

[Randy Schilling]

That's a great effort. Thanks.

[Randy Schilling]

This is my current /etc/host file,

127.0.0.1    localhost
127.0.1.1    hpc

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

I didn't do anything to this file previously, and I'm not sure what change
you want me to make now.

[Randy Schilling]

I added the line

67.167.150.157 rjs357.com

to my /etc/hosts and restarted apache. No help.

/etc/www/default/ still show up as document root in http://rjs357.com/phpinfo.php.
67.167.150.157 is my ip address and it shows up in http://rjs357.com/phpinfo.php as
REMOTE_ADDR and SERVER_ADDR, though I haven''t specified my ip anywhere
in my apache configurations.

[Randy Schilling]

This works!
My ports.conf contains

NameVirtualHost *:80
Listen 80

So I guessed the change <VirtualHost *> to <VirtualHost *:80> in both my
default and rjs357 virtual host files (which are located in /etc/apache2/sites-available).

Does this make sense to you? Is this the best way?

My sincere apology if this should have been obvious.

[Randy Schilling]

I no longer get the error "NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts"
when I restart apache,
and by changing * to *:80, as explained in my previous post,
I've connected my virtual hosts, default and rjs357, to the settings in my ports.conf.

Do you agree?

[CharlesA]

Hi,

Virtualhosts are supposed to be defined in /etc/apache2/sites-avalible/nameofvirtualhost, not /etc/apache2/ports.conf. You can add them to ports.conf but it will make it more difficult to troubleshoot issues.

Also: I have removed your email address from your post, as it isn't really necessary to troubleshooting your config.

Here's what one of my virtualhosts looks like:

charles@Precise:~$ cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/charlesa.net
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        ServerName charlesa.net
        DocumentRoot /home/charles/site/charlesa.net/
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

[sandyd]

Hi,

Virtualhosts are supposed to be defined in /etc/apache2/sites-avalible/nameofvirtualhost, not /etc/apache2/ports.conf. You can add them to ports.conf but it will make it more difficult to troubleshoot issues.

Also: I have removed your email address from your post, as it isn't really necessary to troubleshooting your config.

Here's what one of my virtualhosts looks like:

charles@Precise:~$ cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/charlesa.net
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        ServerName charlesa.net
        DocumentRoot /home/charles/site/charlesa.net/
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

This works!
My ports.conf contains

NameVirtualHost *:80
Listen 80

So I guessed the change <VirtualHost *> to <VirtualHost *:80> in both my
default and rjs357 virtual host files (which are located in /etc/apache2/sites-available).

Does this make sense to you? Is this the best way?

My sincere apology if this should have been obvious.

Note that the ports.conf file by default contains NameVirtualHost - you have to have it set somewhere in order to use virtual hosts. Your current setup is correct.
It is set in there, instead of the virtual hosts to avoid confusion

[CharlesA]

Note that the ports.conf file by default contains NameVirtualHost - you have to have it set somewhere in order to use virtual hosts.
It is set in there, instead of the virtual hosts to avoid confusion

Makes sense. I think that was where I ran it originally, but found a good thread on it somewhere around here, but I cannot recall the name of it.

[sandyd]

Makes sense. I think that was where I ran it originally, but found a good thread on it somewhere around here, but I cannot recall the name of it.

I don't use apache anymore, so I wouldn't know . (/me moved to using Caucho Resin app servers)