Help setting up VirtualHost

slipdigby · #1 3rd June 2008, 06:55 PM

Hi all,

I know this is probably going to sound such a newbie question but I've been googling my answer for 2 days and still can't set it up correctly.

Okay, I am on a home network behind a wireless router. My IP is 192.168.0.3. I've set up FC 9 (with Apache2) so that I can write/develop and test my websites/scripts but want to do it under different directories and from different host addresses.

In the httpd.conf I have the following set up as a VirtualHost;

Quote:

NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.3:80

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.3:80>
ServerAdmin root@localhost
ServerName webone
DocumentRoot /home/kevin/www/
ErrorLog /home/kevin/www/log/error-log
CustomLog /home/kevin/www/log/error-log common
<Directory "/home/kevin/www/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

And in the /etc/hosts.conf I got,

Quote:

order hosts,bind

192.168.0.3 webone

So, the basics of it I want to put webone in the browser that then serves pages from /home/kevin/www

However all I get is the webone .com. au so it goes externally.

I'm totally at a loss with this one. someone please help.

reeksy · #2 3rd June 2008, 07:35 PM

Humm....

I think what i do is similar to what you want to achieve; so here goes:

I tend to have a local domain for each project I'm working on. The domains are in the following format: local.<projectname>.com

So i have a virtual host for each project. Here's my httpd.conf:

Code:

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
   ServerName localhost
   DocumentRoot /var/www/html
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
        ServerName projectone.local.com
        DocumentRoot /home/jon/www/projectone.local.com/
        <Directory "/home/jon/www/projectone.local.com/">
                AllowOverride All
                Order deny,allow
        </Directory>
        ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/projectone.local.com-error_log
        CustomLog /var/log/httpd/projectone.local.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
        ServerName projecttwo.local.com
        DocumentRoot /home/jon/www/projecttwo.local.com/
        <Directory "/home/jon/www/projecttwo.local.com/">
                AllowOverride All
                Order deny,allow
        </Directory>
        ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/projecttwo.local.com-error_log
        CustomLog /var/log/httpd/projecttwo.local.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

Therefore my /etc/hosts file looks like this:

Code:

127.0.0.1       projectone.local.com
127.0.0.1       projecttwo.local.com

Does this help?

Regards,
Jon

slipdigby · #3 3rd June 2008, 07:44 PM

Hi Jon,

I just tried it but something else is happening now...

Quote:

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName proj1.localhost
DocumentRoot /home/kevin/www/proj1/
<Directory "/home/kevin/www/proj1/">
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
</Directory>
ErrorLog /home/kevin/www/proj1/logs/error-log
CustomLog /home/kevin/www/proj1/logs/error-log common
</VirtualHost>

I get this error restarting apache,

Quote:

[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
Starting httpd: Warning: DocumentRoot [/home/kevin/www/proj1/] does not exist
[Tue Jun 03 19:41:49 2008] [error] VirtualHost _default_:443 -- mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results
[FAILED]
[root@localhost ~]#

slipdigby · #4 3rd June 2008, 07:49 PM

Just noticed I didn't create the directories, so I created them, but now get this error;

Quote:

[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [Tue Jun 03 19:46:57 2008] [error] VirtualHost _default_:443 -- mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results
[ OK ]
[root@localhost ~]#

when trying to acces localhost I get error 400 - Bad Request

reeksy · #5 3rd June 2008, 07:50 PM

Do you still have:

Code:

NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.3:80

in your conf file? If so, remove it.

Ensure that /home/kevin/www/proj1/ is a directory:

Code:

$ mkdir /home/kevin/www
$ mkdir /home/kevin/www/proj1

slipdigby · #6 3rd June 2008, 07:54 PM

I'm getting closer I think...

I have

Quote:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName proj1.localhost
DocumentRoot /home/kevin/www/proj1/
<Directory "/home/kevin/www/proj1/">
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
</Directory>
ErrorLog /home/kevin/www/proj1/logs/error-log
CustomLog /home/kevin/www/proj1/logs/error-log common
</VirtualHost>

and

Quote:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 proj1.localhost

I have a directory set up in /home/kevin/www/proj1 with a logs folder and a cgi-bin folder

Now when restarting Apache I get;

Quote:

[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [Tue Jun 03 19:53:46 2008] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
[ OK ]
[root@localhost ~]#

reeksy · #7 3rd June 2008, 07:57 PM

What happens when you navigation to http://proj1.localhost ?

Do you need to *:80? I just use *

Code:

NameVirtualHost *

slipdigby · #8 3rd June 2008, 07:57 PM

Now, rather than <VirtualHost *> I have edited to read <VirtualHost *:80> and apache restarts perfectly.

localhost works but proj1.localhost doesn't - the browser tries to get it externally and puts it a http://www.proj1.localhost resulting in a Address Not Found

reeksy · #9 3rd June 2008, 07:59 PM

What happens if you use a 'sub domain'? At the moment you're just using 'proj1.localhost' I would suggest using a prefix (kevin for example). Like:

Code:

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName kevin.proj1.localhost
DocumentRoot /home/kevin/www/proj1/
<Directory "/home/kevin/www/proj1/">
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
</Directory>
ErrorLog /home/kevin/www/proj1/logs/error-log
CustomLog /home/kevin/www/proj1/logs/error-log common
</VirtualHost>

And your hosts file would read

Code: