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Ian Herbert
Ian Herbert

Reputation: 1019

Apache2: Getting wrong root directories

I am having a slight apache problem. It's probably something so minor that I am just over looking it. This is the scenario. I have an Ubuntu 10.04 server setup with 2 websites. Before all of this, I had one site and I accessed it via the IP address. I just added a second site, this one with a domain name, and I created a new file in the sites-available dir. with a link to the sites-enabled dir.

The first site (the one I accessed via IP) config looks something like this:

#Default
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www
......etc

Then the other config is something like this:

#Secondary 
<VirtualHost TheDomainName.com:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/thedomainname
.......etc

If you guys need me to post the full config files I will. Why does the request for the IP address fall through to the DomainName config? Is it because they are identical IP addresses? How do I differentiate between the two?

If I try to set the ip address on the first "Default" config instead of "*", this site only works and I can never get to the other "Secondary" site.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2032

Answers (3)

&#193;lvaro Gonz&#225;lez
&#193;lvaro Gonz&#225;lez

Reputation: 146460

Different sites cannot share IP and port combination unless you use name based virtual hosts. The example from the manual is this:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain.tld
ServerAlias domain.tld *.domain.tld
DocumentRoot /www/domain
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.otherdomain.tld
DocumentRoot /www/otherdomain
</VirtualHost>

When you use this feature, unknown domain names map to the first <VirtualHost> found in your configuration.

Upvotes: 1

Mattias Ahnberg
Mattias Ahnberg

Reputation: 2870

For site1:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName oink.domain.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www
  ...

For site2:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName blah.domain.com
   DocumentRoot /var/www/thedomainname
   ...

Upvotes: 0

Adam MacDonald
Adam MacDonald

Reputation: 1958

Are you using ServerName and ServerAlias in your virtual host directive?

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName  www.domain.com
    ServerAlias domain.com domain.net www.domain.net

The other thing, and you are probably doing this, but restarting apache after making changes

httpd restart

(or something similar .. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart or lighttpd if you are using that)

Upvotes: 1

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