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Ross
Asked: 2010-08-31 10:37:34 +0800 CST

Cannot get 'default' Apache VirtualHost to work

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I've changed this from the original VHost but it should still work in my mind:

Listen 80
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName localhost
 ServerAdmin ross@localhost

 DocumentRoot /var/www
 <Directory /var/www/>
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride None
  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
</VirtualHost>

The only difference between this and other working VHosts is that /var/www requires higher privileges to access it - I get a "Could not connect" error which I assume is a 500 error (Chrome hides the status codes and I can't remember). What can I do to make this work?

configuration apache2 virtualhost

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try performing a manual connection using telnet from a terminal window:

    telnet localhost 80

    If you receive a connection refused message, the daemon is not running or starting up propertly. From there it would be a good idea to inspect your Apache error log (/var/log/apache2/error.log) to find out why.

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  2. Could not connect is not a 500 error. It means apache is either not running or not reachable.

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  3. This is a guess, but I think Apache runs as the www-user login, or similar. Does it have rights to the root of /var/www? I think by default, Apache points to symlinks off an /etc/apache2/default directory or something like that. Working from memory here, and no expert though. Sorry.

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