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Ency
Asked: 2011-01-07 03:21:18 +0800 CST

Dummy/default page for apache

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I'm trying to set up default page for my apache2, for following cases:

  1. User is accessing http://IP_Address instead of hostname
  2. Requested protocol (HTTP/HTTPS) is not available (eg. only https://domain.com exists)

Currently I've got something like that

<VirtualHost eserver:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www/local/
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>


I think, it works well, i'm trying to do similar thing for HTTPS, but it does not work.

<VirtualHost eserver:443>

       SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/dummy.key
       SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/dummy.crt
       SSLProtocol all
       SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM

       ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
       DocumentRoot /var/www/local/

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

       ServerSignature Off

</VirtualHost>

My default is places in sites-enabled as a first one 000-default
I do not care about not certificate validity during accessing default page, my goal is not show different HTTPS page if user one of points is applied

apache-2.2 virtualhost default-document

2 Answers

  1. Em, you don't seem to have a DocumentRoot defined in the HTTPS virtual host. Copy the DocumentRoot and Directory Stanza from the HTTPS virtual host.

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  2. Best Answer

    Dummy directive ServerName can do the trick. 

    <VirtualHost eserver:443>                                                                            

            ServerName default                                                                         

            SSLEngine on 
            SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/dummy.key                                             
            SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/dummy.crt                                                
            SSLProtocol all
            SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM                                                                   

            ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log                                                          

            DocumentRoot /var/www/local/
            # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,                           
            # alert, emerg.                                                                              
            LogLevel warn                                                                                

            ServerSignature Off                                                                          

    </VirtualHost>
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