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neezer
Asked: 2011-06-10 08:21:28 +0800 CST

Apache2: IP rendering vhost when I don't want it to?

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I have an Apache2 server setup with several vhosts, and it all works fine. Navigating to my ip renders one of those vhosts (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/main_site.com), which--up until now--I had wanted.

Now I want the ip to go to the default vhost /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default, but I can't remember where to change that. I assume there's some directive in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, but nothing is sticking out at me.

Any help would be appreciated.

➜ /etc/apache2: ls sites-enabled/  
default                 micro_main_1.com          micro_main_2.com            main.com
sub1.main.com           micro_main_3.biz          micro_main_4.com            main_site.com
sub1.main2.com          micro_main_5.biz     

➜ /etc/apache2/sites-enabled: cat default
NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
    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
    ServerSignature Email

    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>

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf => https://gist.github.com/1017147

➜ /etc/apache2/sites-enabled: cat main_site.com
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@main_site.com
    ServerName main_site.com
    ServerAlias www.main_site.com

        # ...

</VirtualHost>
apache-2.2

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You have in your /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

    # Include the virtual host configurations:
Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

ServerName main_site
DocumentRoot /var/www

NameVirtualHost *:80

    Move NameVirtualHost before Inlcuding virutal hosts configurations. It should be like following:

    NameVirtualHost *:80

# Include the virtual host configurations:
Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

    Also you don't need the NameVirtualHost * in your default virtual host file.

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  2. The first VirtualHost that's loaded with that IP:Port pair will be used to render requests which do not contain a host header. Make sure your virtualhosts clearly use the IP address or *, and the port #. Now, I believe the files in sites-enabled are loaded in alphabetical order, which would mean that the default file should take precedence over the main_site file.

    Post your VirtualHost and we can take a look.

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  3. You've likely got a ServerName or ServerAlias directive that specifies the IP address in main_site, or the <VirtualHost> block specifically specifies the IP to listen on (instead of *:80; which is probably disabling name-based vhosting completely).

    If there's no matching ServerName or ServerAlias, and the vhosts are all set to a listener specification that matches your NameVirtualHost directive, then the first vhost to load (alphabetically) will serve the request. That's not happening, so one of those two things must be off.

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  4. Put the site that you want to respond per default first in the list.

    On Ubuntu/Debian:

    rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default
ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/00default

    (or another site, if you want it to be the default)

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