I am needing to set up a virtual host for Pilotalk.com because I have more than one server I need to run on the Linux machine. I am having a problem where my web site does not come up and I am pretty certain that my NameVirtualHost and virtualHosts blocks are correct. Here is what they look like: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster(a)pilotalk.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html ServerName pilotalk.com ServerAlias pilotalk.com *.pilotalk.com ErrorLog logs/PilotalkBraillesoft.com-error_log CustomLog logs/PilotalkBraillesoft.com-access_log common </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.pilotalk.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/PilotalkBraillesoft.com DirectoryIndex index.php </VirtualHost>

Thanks for coming to the rescue grin!

Well they say to put a wild card in the example that they give in the Apache book but that is no problem to change.

I also do have a NameVirtualHost. here is what it looks like. NameVirtualHost *:80

What I am hoping to see here is the index.php file from my Content Management System and I am not seeing that at all. I think once I get one NameVirtualHost and VirtualHost down then I will be able to do others.

Just wondering I want to also make virtual hosts for bugzilla, svn, and mailman.

Also does a NameVirtualHost block need to be specified any time I use a different port? For example, I might want Bugzilla on port 8080?

Tim, You said: found it best to have the default return nothing, and have virtual hosts for anything that I specifically wanted. What do you mean by this. Are you saying to put hash marks in front of certain things? Can you please be more specific?

Tim, I still seem to have the same problem where index.php is not coming up properly. by this I mean I cannot see it at all. Here is what my virtual host looks like for this. NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName pilotalk.com ServerAlias pilotalk.com UseCanonicalName On ServerAdmin webmaster(a)pilotalk.com DocumentRoot /var/www/PilotalkBraillesoft.com DirectoryIndex index.php ErrorLog logs/PilotalkBraillesoft.com-error_log CustomLog logs/PilotalkBraillesoft.com-access_log common RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^PILOTALK\COM$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.pilotalk.com/$1 [R=301,L] </VirtualHost> Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au&gt; To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt; Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 12:54 AM Subject: Re: a couple questions about virtual hosts in Apache > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:18 -0500, Scott wrote: >> Tim, >> >> You said: >> found it best to have the default return nothing, and have virtual hosts >> for anything that I specifically wanted. >> >> >> What do you mean by this. Are you saying to put hash marks in front of >> certain things? Can you please be more specific? > > I put all my websites into virtual hosts, and left no files for the > default one to serve, except for an error message (the default 403 > message that says Apache is installed). > > i.e. The /var/www/html/ directory, where the default files are served > from is empty. > > I don't put my virtual hosts as sub-directories inside there, as that > makes it too easy to grab files from another site. I host them from a > different parent directory. > > e.g. /var/www/site1/, /var/www/site2/, and so on. > > The ability for someone to browse to http://192.168.1.2/site1/ and grab > files they shouldn't, is one reason. Access rules can sometimes be > worked around that way, if they're applied via URIs rather than > filepaths. > > Another reason is that you can get people accessing your site through > more than one address, and that's a caching and bandwidth problem. Some > will do it both ways, doubling the traffic, especially if search engines > pick you up both ways. > > Also, because of the latter reason, I use URI rewriting rules on sites > that can be addressed in two ways. For instance, if example.com can > also be reached at www.example.com, I'd put in a rule that caused > accesses for what I consider the wrong one to be rewritten to what I > consider the correct one. The following three lines cause accesses to > example.com to become accesses to www.example.com: > > RewriteEngine on > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L] > > The second line matches host queries that "start" with example.com > (that's what the ^ carat in front of example means). The [NC] means to > be non-case-sensitive. > > Now anybody accessing the site gets corrected. If they bookmark the > site, they should be bookmarking what I consider its address to be. > Likewise if they link to it. Since it's done for them, people never > wonder whether they should be referring to the site with or without the > the www prefix. They'll use the address that's currently showing in > their browser, the corrected one. > > Putting that all together gives you something like: > > <VirtualHost *:80> > ServerName www.example.com > ServerAlias example > UseCanonicalName On > ServerAdmin webmaster(a)example.com > DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com > DirectoryIndex homepage.html default.html index.html > ErrorDocument 401 /responses/401.shtml > ErrorDocument 403 /responses/403.shtml > ErrorDocument 404 /responses/404.shtml > ErrorLog logs/example.com-error_log > CustomLog logs/example.com-access_log combined > XBitHack Full > RewriteEngine on > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L] > </VirtualHost> > > I also customise the server error pages to my site. Though, if you're > not going to add information to them that's directly providing help for > them to use your site, I wouldn't bother. The default ones are > multi-lingual. > > -- > [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr > 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 > > Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list(a)redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.11/944 - Release Date: 8/9/2007 > 2:44 PM > >

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:45 -0500, Scott wrote: > I still seem to have the same problem where index.php is not coming up > properly. by this I mean I cannot see it at all. A 404 error? > Here is what my virtual host looks like for this. > NameVirtualHost *:80 > > <VirtualHost *:80> > ServerName pilotalk.com Servername for what you want the address to be. e.g. ServerName www.pilotalk.com > ServerAlias pilotalk.com ServerAlias alternatives that will be accepted, even if you rewrite them (as your rewrite rule did below). If you only had one name, and no aliases, you'd remove the ServerAlias directive. > UseCanonicalName On > ServerAdmin webmaster(a)pilotalk.com > DocumentRoot /var/www/PilotalkBraillesoft.com File paths and names are case-sensitive on Linux, be sure that you've typed them correctly. > DirectoryIndex index.php > ErrorLog logs/PilotalkBraillesoft.com-error_log > CustomLog logs/PilotalkBraillesoft.com-access_log common > RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^PILOTALK\COM$ [NC] There'd be a backslash followed by a dot before com, you've got no dot. The backslash is to escape the dot, so the match is for a dot being there. Otherwise, the dot typed into the line would be part of a wildcard. As it stands, that rewrite match wouldn't get applied. > RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.pilotalk.com/$1 [R=301,L] > </VirtualHost> As Alan said, check your logs. You've set up two, above, for this virtual host, check both your access and error logs. Also, check the main logs for the rest of the server (i.e. if this virtual host didn't accept the request, the default might have, and they'll be logged there). Both will be inside: /var/log/httpd/ -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.11/944 - Release Date: 8/9/2007 2:44 PM

Scott: >>> I still seem to have the same problem where index.php is not coming up >>> properly. by this I mean I cannot see it at all. Tim: >> A 404 error? Scott: > No it doesn't look like a 404 error. Here is what it says. > Network Error > > block quote > Network Error (tcp_error) > > A communication error occurred: "" > The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems > preventing it from responding to requests. Sounds like it might be the same thing that I just mentioned to someone else: How are you accessing the website? By domain name or IP? And if by domain name, what IP address does that machine see it as? If you're trying to browse a server on the same machine as the browser, and you're trying to use an external IP address, it may not work. Your networking hardware or firewall rules may not route such a connection through. It can help if *that* machine has a hosts file entry giving a LAN IP address for the domain name. That way, when it browses to the domain name, the networking is all internal. If it's not a routing issue, then it sounds like your server isn't listening. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.13/946 - Release Date: 8/10/2007 3:50 PM

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:45 -0500, Scott wrote: > I still seem to have the same problem where index.php is not coming up > properly. by this I mean I cannot see it at all. A 404 error? > Here is what my virtual host looks like for this. > NameVirtualHost *:80 > > <VirtualHost *:80> > ServerName pilotalk.com Servername for what you want the address to be. e.g. ServerName www.pilotalk.com > ServerAlias pilotalk.com ServerAlias alternatives that will be accepted, even if you rewrite them (as your rewrite rule did below). If you only had one name, and no aliases, you'd remove the ServerAlias directive. > UseCanonicalName On > ServerAdmin webmaster(a)pilotalk.com > DocumentRoot /var/www/PilotalkBraillesoft.com File paths and names are case-sensitive on Linux, be sure that you've typed them correctly. > DirectoryIndex index.php > ErrorLog logs/PilotalkBraillesoft.com-error_log > CustomLog logs/PilotalkBraillesoft.com-access_log common > RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^PILOTALK\COM$ [NC] There'd be a backslash followed by a dot before com, you've got no dot. The backslash is to escape the dot, so the match is for a dot being there. Otherwise, the dot typed into the line would be part of a wildcard. As it stands, that rewrite match wouldn't get applied. > RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.pilotalk.com/$1 [R=301,L] > </VirtualHost> As Alan said, check your logs. You've set up two, above, for this virtual host, check both your access and error logs. Also, check the main logs for the rest of the server (i.e. if this virtual host didn't accept the request, the default might have, and they'll be logged there). Both will be inside: /var/log/httpd/ -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.11/944 - Release Date: 8/9/2007 2:44 PM

Tim, I still seem to have the same problem where index.php is not coming up properly. by this I mean I cannot see it at all. Here is what my virtual host looks like for this. NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName pilotalk.com ServerAlias pilotalk.com UseCanonicalName On ServerAdmin webmaster(a)pilotalk.com DocumentRoot /var/www/PilotalkBraillesoft.com DirectoryIndex index.php ErrorLog logs/PilotalkBraillesoft.com-error_log CustomLog logs/PilotalkBraillesoft.com-access_log common RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^PILOTALK\COM$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.pilotalk.com/$1 [R=301,L] </VirtualHost> Scott