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Asked: 2011-09-03 02:08:52 +0800 CST

Server domain name is replaced with IP address in browser address bar

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I installed a LAMP server and set up my domain name to resolve to an appropriate IP address. However, when I connect to a server with it's domain name, it is with an IP address in an address bar. My /etc/apache2/sites-available/default looks like this:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin ...
        ServerName mydomainname.irrelevant.to.the.question

        DocumentRoot /var/www
...

I thought that was supposed to fix this behaviour. What else is required?

apache-2.2 web-server domain-name

1 Answers

  1. It's likely your PHP application.

    Apache won't bother with this kind of redirection without being specifically told to with a Redirect or RewriteRule doing it (it doesn't "enforce" matching of the ServerName in any way), but a lot of web applications out there in the world like for the requested hostname to match what they're internally configured with.

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