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grenade
Asked: 2011-01-06 05:32:37 +0800 CST

Mindtouch broke my Apache2 virtual host configuration

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I installed mindtouch using the instructions here and it seems to have broken my Virtual Host configuration. I have several domains running off the same apache instance and this was working fine but now all my domain names resolve to the virtualhost where mindtouch was installed. So mindtouch made all my domain names point to the new mindtouch instance. Grrr!

I use debians default virtual host mechanisms (sites-enabled, etc). Does anyone know what apache directive mindtouch is using to ruin my vh setup? I've scoured all the conf files and there is nothing obvious in apache2.conf or httpd.conf that would cause the behaviour. Did it create a sym-link somewhere that I should destroy?

I should add that I uninstalled the mindtouch packages already but apache persists in redirecting all domains to the first one mentioned in the sites-enabled folder.

thini:~# apache2ctl -S
[Wed Jan 05 13:39:11 2011] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:*  www.openancestry.org (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/openancestry.org:1)
*:*  www.pragmantra.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/pragmantra.com:1)
*:*  services.pragmantra.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/services.pragmantra.com:1)
*:*  www.subversionreports.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/subversionreports.com:1)
*:*  www.thijssen.ch (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/thijssen.ch:1)
Syntax OK

EDIT: after making the corrections suggested by Niall & DerfK I now get this:

thini:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# apache2ctl -S
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
 default server www.openancestry.org (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/openancestry.org:1)
 port 80 namevhost www.openancestry.org (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/openancestry.org:1)
 port 80 namevhost www.pragmantra.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/pragmantra.com:1)
 port 80 namevhost services.pragmantra.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/services.pragmantra.com:1)
 port 80 namevhost www.subversionreports.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/subversionreports.com:1)
 port 80 namevhost www.thijssen.ch (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/thijssen.ch:1)
Syntax OK

Whichever file is first in the sites-enabled folder ends up being treated as "default server". It's as if named virtual hosts is disabled.

Resolved with this:

<VirtualHost _default_:80>DocumentRoot /var/www</VirtualHost>
debian apache-2.2 virtualhost

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The first warning is probably the answer. You have NameVirtualHost defined as *:80, however by the looks of things you have <VirtualHost *:*> or similar rather than <VirtualHost *:80> on the bit of config defining each virtual host.

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  2. @Grenade Sorry to hear you are having issues with MindTouch. If you followed the instructions on the wiki page then you could always try "a2dissite dekiwiki" and "a2ensite default" to see if that fixes it. MindTouch does use the sites-enabled symlinks to manage hosts, but it might just be the case that you have a wildcard on the first apache vhost. Let me know if the above helps.

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