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Hari
Hari

Reputation: 77

VirtualHost configuration

I need to configure two name-based virtual hosts in my Ubuntu PC. If I type the address http://mypage1 in browser, it should display my first customized html page and if I type the address http://mypage2, it should display my second customized html page. I tried out the following:

  1. installed apache

  2. created a file mypage1 inside sites-available with the contents as follows:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName mypage1
 ServerAlias http://mypage1
 DocumentRoot /var/www/mypage1/html
</VirtualHost>

  3. created a similar file mypage2 inside sites-available

  4. ran the commands a2ensite mypage1 and a2ensite mypage2 to generate soft links inside sites-enabled.
  5. restarted apache using sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

After doing the above steps, when I type mypage1 in firefox, I get dns_unresolved_hostname error.

Kindly help me how to resolve this problem.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1465

Answers (2)

SeerUK
SeerUK

Reputation: 497

DNS unresolved means exactly what it said! It could not find the DNS entries for 'servers' called mypage1 or mypage2.

Add them to you /etc/hosts file like

127.0.0.1 mypage1 mypage2

If you are successful then you will probably get a different error, then you can start looking into virtual hosts configuration

Upvotes: 2

cHao
cHao

Reputation: 86496

For one thing, you should set a NameVirtualHost for whatever IP(s) you intend to serve the files from. (If you don't, Apache will usually ignore the server name and just use whatever site is defined/included first.)

Also, make sure "mypage1" and "mypage2" are actual, valid domain names, or put them in /etc/hosts. Apache's knowing about them doesn't automatically make them known anywhere outside Apache -- especially to your machine's DNS resolver.

Upvotes: 1

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