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Matt Elhotiby
Asked: 2011-01-27 08:10:45 +0800 CST

Why is apache serving the default?

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I keep adding more vhosts and enabling them but all the sites always do to the default vhost in sites-available

here is what the default kind of looks like with me only changing the ip for security reasons

 <VirtualHost 167.889.88.88:80>
     ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

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

 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>

and here is my other which i named some-site.net

 <VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName some-site.net
     DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/somesite.com/http/"

     <Directory "/var/www/vhosts/somesite.com/http/">
             AllowOverride all
             Options -MultiViews
     </Directory>
 </VirtualHost>

and it turned on my this command

sudo a2ensite some-site.net
 Enabling site some-site.net.
 Run '/etc/init.d/apache2 reload' to activate new configuration!

then i reloaded

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
* Reloading web server config apache2
 ...done.

but when i visit the url some-site.net i get the index page that is for the default vhost...what am i doing wrong

ubuntu apache-2.2 virtualhost

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    First guess, you need the NameVirtualHost statement in your httpd.conf file. Also, as a sanity check, I'm assuming you have the correct blocks?

    What do you get when you run apachectl -S ?

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  2. In your first block you do not have a ServerName specified and Apache is matching the incoming request to the IP. The problem is with the mix of IP and Name based virtual server configuration.

    To further rule out the problem out a ServerName directive in your virtual server directive which start as follows.

    VirtualHost 167.889.88.88:80

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  3. Add following lines in /etc/hosts file:

    localhost some-site.net
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