I'm configuring a new server (droplet) with Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. I installed apache and configured virtual hosts. The server name is www.speedysoftware.com and this is the value of /etc/hostname
. The problem is, I'm trying to redirect http://www.speedysoftware.com/ to a specific virtual host, but it's redirected to the default virtual host. On the other hand, http://www.speedysoft.com/ and http://www.speedy-software.com/ are redirected to the correct virtual host, which should be the same as http://www.speedysoftware.com/
File /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
:
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/general
<Directory /var/www/general>
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>
# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet
File /etc/apache2/sites-available/speedysoftware.conf
:
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
ServerName www.speedysoftware.com
ServerAlias speedysoftware.com *.speedysoftware.com
ServerAlias speedy-software.com *.speedy-software.com
ServerAlias speedysoft.com *.speedysoft.com
# ... (more ServerAliases)
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/speedysoftware
<Directory /var/www/speedysoftware>
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>
# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet
You can see that http://www.speedy-soft.com/ is redirected to the default virtual host, and this is correct. What is the problem with the configuration?
After I made changes, I reloaded the settings by sudo systemctl restart apache2
.
Regarding redirecting, in this case I don't want to redirect. I want them to be considered separate websites although they lead to the same virtual host. In other cases I do redirect, for example I redirect http://www.speedypedia.org/ to http://www.speedypedia.info/, and I redirect http://ww.speedysoftware.com/ (or any other subdomain, including http://speedysoftware.com/) to http://www.speedysoftware.com/.
Update - I checked and http://ww.speedysoftware.com/, http://wwww.speedysoftware.com/ and http://speedysoftware.com/ all lead to the correct virtual host. Only http://www.speedysoftware.com/ doesn't lead to the correct virtual host.
I wrote to DigitalOcean Support (they have a great support, by the way) and they wrote me:
I ran
apachectl -S
from the command line and found out the problem:Since I didn't define
ServerName
in/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
, the droplet name was taken, and this was the problem. So I addedServerName www.speedy-soft.com
to this file:And restarted Apache. I ran
apachectl -S
again:And now everything is working.
You can see more details on this page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5474477/how-to-debug-an-apache-virtual-host-configuration