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MountainX
Asked: 2011-02-18 16:35:29 +0800 CST

Help - apache serves up my website from (almost) any URL!

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I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with apache, rails, mysql, etc.

My rails site is running at www.example.com. I'm intending to use named-based virtual hosting and I have a virtual hosts file configured/enabled for www.example.com. My site is hosted on Amazon EC2.

The problem is that if I set up a new DNS record -- say test.example.com -- and browse to that, my site www.example.com is served up! That's without configuring any new virtual hosts.

And the same is true if I go to my DNS records and define test2.example.com, etc. Without touching my server, these new URLs serve up my website.

That's not what I want! I want to use name-based virtual hosting and host different sites for each subdomain.

Where could my problem be?

Here's my virtual hosts file:

ServerSignature Off
ServerTokens Prod
#NameVirtualHost *:80 - this is defined in a default config file already.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    UseCanonicalName On

    ServerName www.example.com
    DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/example/public
    ErrorLog /home/ubuntu/example/log/error.log

    <Directory /home/ubuntu/example/public/>
           AllowOverride all
           Options -MultiViews 
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>
apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If there aren't any matching virtual hosts to use, apache will use what it considers to be the default virtual host. If you want a blank page to display, set that as the first virtual host, then define your www.example.com entry afterwards.

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