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cherrun
Asked: 2012-02-29 01:59:40 +0800 CST

Running multiple virtual hosts

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I want to run multiple domains on my server (only two at the moment). I already changed both nameservers to point to my server.

In the apache2.conf file I enabled "included sites-enabled".

My ports.conf file looks as follows

NameVirtualHost *:80
Listen 80
Listen 443

<VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx:443>
    SSLEngine On
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key

    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName firstDomain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/
    ErrorLog /var/log/error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

This is the setting for my main page.

My httpd.conf file looks like this

ServerName firstDomain.com

<VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName firstDomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/
ErrorLog /var/log/error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName secondDomain.com
    ServerAlias *.secondDomain.com
    DocumentRoot /home/user/www/secondDomain.com/htdocs
</VirtualHost>

Options -Indexes All FollowSymLinks MultiViews

Last but not least my "secondDomain" file in "sites-avaiable"

<VirtualHost secondDomain.com>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName  secondDomain.com

    # Indexes + Directory Root.
    DirectoryIndex index.html
    DocumentRoot /home/user/www/secondDomain/htdocs/

    # CGI Directory
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/user/www/seoncDomain/cgi-bin/
    <Location /cgi-bin>
            Options +ExecCGI
    </Location>


    # Logfiles
    ErrorLog  /home/user/www/secondDomain/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /home/user/www/secondDomain/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

I also get an error message, everytime I restart the apache server, saying that VirtualHosts xx.xx.xx.xx:80 overlaps with VirtualHosts xx.xx.xx.xx:80.

When I call my secondDomain.com only the firstDomain.com pops up. It seems like the mapping is wrong.

apachectl -t output:

[warn] VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx:80 overlaps with VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx:80, the first has   precedence, perhaps you need a NameVirtualHost directive
Syntax OK

apache2ctl -S output:

[Wed Feb 29 02:05:17 2012] [warn] VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx:80 overlaps with VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx:80, the first has precedence, perhaps you need a NameVirtualHost directive
VirtualHost configuration:
127.0.0.1:*           secondDomain.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/secondDomain.com:1)
xx.xx.xx.xx:443       firstDomain.com (/etc/apache2/ports.conf:12)
xx.xx.xx.xx:80        firstDomain.com (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:3)
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
     default server secondDomain.com (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:11)
     port 80 namevhost secondDomain.com (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:11)
     port 80 namevhost firstDomain.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:1)
     port 80 namevhost firstDomain.com (/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:241)
     port 80 namevhost secondDomain.com (/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:249)
Syntax OK

Wordpress is installed through apt-get. I have a symlink in /var/www/ which points to /usr/share/wordpress and activated in /etc/apache2/sites-available and a2ensite.

apache-2.2 virtualhost domain

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You have a NameVirtualHost directive, but you're not using it. You're specifying the IP address and/or the hostname in your <VirtualHost> declaration - that's not what you want.

    Change:

    <VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx:80>

    and

    <VirtualHost secondDomain.com>

    To both be simply:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
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  2. You may try next:

    1. Move firstDomain.com virtual host declaration to sites-available/firstDomain.
    2. Remove everything from httpd.conf (you may try to define ServerName in apache2.conf)
    3. Ensure that you have sites-available/firstDomain and sites-available/secondDomain symlinked to sites-enabled/firstDomain and sites-enabled/secondDomain respectively.
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