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Hubro
Asked: 2011-09-28 02:51:15 +0800 CST

ISPConfig is sending HTTP requests sent to it's IP address to it's only configured site - WHY?

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I have ISPConfig set up at a VPS at IP address 1.2.3.4. On that ISPConfig installation I have configures one site called example.no. Now when I visit example.no in the browser, it's correctly displaying the folder /var/www/example.no/web.

The issue is: When I visit http://1.2.3.4 it's also displaying /var/www/example.no/web. That's not supposed to happen, is it? What could possibly be the reason?

To sum up: 1.2.3.4 is a VPS with ISPConfig installed. It has Apache, FTP software, DNS software, courier etc. installed and ISPConfig is handling them all. When I visit the domain name of a site hosted on that server, I expect to be taken to the correct folder on that server, which I am. But when I visit the IP address of the server, I expect nothing to happen. Instead it displays the only site configured at the moment.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    When a Host: header matching no configured sites is encountered by Apache on a port using name-based virtual hosting, it serves the request from the first VirtualHost block that was loaded on that port.

    If you want to prevent the behavior that you're observing, set up a VirtualHost that loads before your real one, which has a bogus ServerName and doesn't serve your site.

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