I've installed some software for users to be able to change their ldap password on they own named self service password on this path: /usr/share/self-service-password/htdocs.
In sites-enabled my configuration is as follows: (file named 000-default.conf)
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName <IP>
DocumentRoot /usr/share/self-service-password/htdocs
DirectoryIndex index.php
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
LogLevel warn
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/ssp_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/ssp_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
(same thing is "configured" at sites-available").
I've made sure this .conf file (000-default) is enabled by a2ensite, and made sure everything else is disabled, and restarted apache2.
However, When browsing to my IP:81 , it keeps redirecting me to Apache default welcome page under /var/www/html .
I'm trying to find a solution for it for the past 2 hours and couldn't find the reason behind it.
Thanks for anyone willing to assist.
As per your configuration your VirtualHost is accepting connections on port *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
But then you are testing on IP:81.
Could you please adjust your test to IP:80
or
Adjust the VirtualHost port to *:81
They must match to work.
Related
I am currently trying to setup an virtual hosts following this tutorial on DigitalOcean.
The dummy-site I am trying to serve is under /var/www/example/html/index.html. I have not registered an official domain but setup /etc/hosts/ to resolve example.com to the IP address of my server.
I created another conf file called example.conf under /etc/apache2/sites-available and enabled it with sudo a2ensite example.conf and disabled the 000-default.conf.
Now whenever I go to example.com in my browser I get served:
.
This is the same page I would get when directly going to the IP address of my server. Only when I got directly to example.com/example/html I get served the correct index.html.
My current config looks like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#example.com
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/example/html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
And my /etc/hosts file on my laptop like this:
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
<server-ip> example.com
There are some other folders inside /var/www/ as the company I rented the server from had some maintenance sites preinstalled, but that shouldn't matter in this situation. (See edit, this did actually matter).
It feels like I am missing something obvious here, but I can't find a solution for my problem.
Edit:
The obvious thing I was missing, was that 2 additional sites where enabled by default as well.
One had the following contents:
# 10_froxlor_ipandport_<ip-address>.conf
# Created 28.11.2019 21:05
# Do NOT manually edit this file, all changes will be deleted after the next domain change at the panel.
<VirtualHost <ip-address>:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/"
ServerName <predefined Server name>
</VirtualHost>
After disabling all the other sites, the request to example.com actually went to the right index.html.
I figure, that the above enabled site actually matched the request coming from my browser and showed the www root directory.
The obvious thing I was missing, was that 2 additional sites where enabled by default as well.
One had the following contents:
# 10_froxlor_ipandport_<ip-address>.conf
# Created 28.11.2019 21:05
# Do NOT manually edit this file, all changes will be deleted after the next domain change at the panel.
<VirtualHost <ip-address>:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/"
ServerName <predefined Server name>
</VirtualHost>
After disabling all the other sites, the request to example.com actually went to the right index.html.
I figure, that the above enabled site actually matched the request coming from my browser and showed the www root directory.
I have asked a similar question before
Restrict access to directories through ip address
at that time the problem was solved for apache 2.2. Recently I re-installed the OS (to Debian 8) and it comes with apache 2.4.
I want to restrict access to files - when the request comes "by" IP. Mainly if in the browser I try to open http://192.168.252.178/test/image.jpg it should show error - 403 forbidden. Directory test is in www directory of apache. However I should be able to access that image if I type http://www.example.com/image.jpg - considering that example.com points to that test directory.
With apache version 2.2 I would simply put this lines in my default site config file - and the problem was solved
<Files ~ ".+">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
Now, trying the same thing does not work: I am getting 403 forbidden even if I try to open any site by the domain name.
Considering the changes in 2.4 I also tried this, but again getting the the same 403 forbidden when trying to open some site.
<Files ~ ".+">
Require all denied
</Files>
My goal is to prevent any kind of access to directories and files - if they are being accessed through ip address. I have also this lines in my default site's config to prevent the directory access and this works fine.
<Directory /home/username/www>
Options -Indexes
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
So, the question is - how to prevent file access through IP address. Also I need to achieve this by apache config, by htaccess is not a solution for me. And I need to achieve this for all the directories/files inside www recursively, so specifying the exact file names and/or directories is not a solution either.
Thanks
When you use name based virtual hosts, the main server goes away. Apache will choose which virtual host to use according to IP address (you may have more than one) and port first, and only after this first selection it will search for a corresponding ServerName or ServerAlias in this subset of candidates, in the order in which the virtual hosts appear in the configuration.
If no virtual host is found, then the first VHost in this subset (also in order of configuration) will be choosen. More.
I mention this because it will be important you have only one type of VirtualHost directive:
<VirutalHost *:80>
or
<VirtualHost 123.45.67.89:80>
I'll use the wildcard in the example.
You need a directory like /var/www/catchall with a file index.html or similar, as you prefer.
<VirtualHost *:80>
# This first-listed virtual host is also the default for *:80
# It will be used as the catchall.
ServerName 123.45.67.89
# Giving this DocRoot will avoid any request based on IP or any other
# wrong request to get to the other users directories.
DocumentRoot "/var/www/catchall"
<Directory /var/www/catchall>
...
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
# Now you can add as usuall the configuration for any other VHost you need.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName site1.com
ServerAlias www.site2.com
DocumentRoot "/home/username1/www"
<Directory /home/username1/www>
...
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName site2.com
ServerAlias www.site2.com
DocumentRoot "/home/username2/www"
<Directory /home/username2/www>
...
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Debian specific :
For Debian, you ideally put one VHost configuration per file, and put the file in the /etc/apache2/sites-available directory.
Name the files as you like, only the file containing the catchall vhost should be named something like 000-catchall, because they will be read in alphabetic order from the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory.
Then you disable Debian's usual default site :
a2dissite 000-default
and you enable the new catchall site and the other VHosts if needed :
a2ensite 000-catchall
An ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled command should show the catchall as the first of list, if not change its file name so that it will always be the first. Restart Apache: service apache2 restart
Of course you could do all this changes in the original default VHost config file, but I usually prefer keep an original model.
I am trying to set up the Apache server which comes with OS X Mavericks with vhosts so that a domain name resolves to my user level document webroot. I have followed this tutorial which guided me through setting up the apache server with php:
http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/get-apache-mysql-php-phpmyadmin-working-osx-10-9-mavericks/
as well as this one which guided me through setting up the vhosts:
http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/set-virtual-hosts-apache-mac-osx-10-9-mavericks-osx-10-8-mountain-lion/
Following these tutorials, if I type localhost in my browser it correctly resolves to the system level root (/Library/WebServer/Documents/ folder). If I use localhost/~myusername it correctly resolves to my user level root (/users/myusername/Sites/).
However, whenever I navigate to my domain, I get redirected to the system level root rather than my user level root.
My vhosts file reads as follows:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot "/Users/myusername/Sites/mydomain"
<Directory "/Users/myusername/Sites/mydomain">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Any ideas?
Have you enabled Virtualhosts?
NameVirtualHost *:80
And included your vhosts directory
Include <path>/vhosts/*
On a Macbook, you may need to include /private/ at the beginning of any absolute path, so that Apache can read it correctly off the file system.
For others who have the same problem...
It was frustratingly simple - I had missed the "" around the localhost directory.
How annoying!
Try starting apache manually with the -S option to see what the problem might be:
/usr/sbin/httpd -S
I have a server with multiple websites hosted and distinguishable using name-based virtual hosting of apache.
How do I set it so that a specific website is hosted when the ip of my server is entered in the address bar?
What you want to use is the _default_ VirtualHost.
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
DocumentRoot /www/default80
# ...
</VirtualHost>
It's described here. Basically if nothing else match the request the _default_ host will be used.
EDIT
This could also be written as:
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /www/default
# ...
</VirtualHost>
Is is important that this is the first VirtualHost in the configuration since Apache will start matching them from top to bottom, selecting the one that fit the best based on ServerName and ServerAlias.
This post might also be of interest:
Apache default VirtualHost
just find the Include sites-enabled/ line in your apache2.conf file and add the path to the conf file you want to be site default above it. from:
Include sites-enabled/
to
Include sites-enabled/mydefault.conf
Include sites-enabled/
When you first install apache2, there is a site configuration file named 000-default.conf. This is going to be the default because it is very likely to appear first in the list of files under /etc/apache2/sites-enabled.
To have your own file as the default, you can either replace the file under /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf with your own, or replace the link like so:
sudo rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
sudo ln -s ../sites-available/my-site-setup.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
Then restart apache2 (or just reload).
The _default_ as mentioned by the other answer is for defining a virtual host which can be found with the default IP address. It's not the default virtual host.
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
...
is equivalent to
<VirtualHost *:80>
...
The * is a globing pattern which matches any IP addresses.
Note:
Replacing the 000-default.conf file is okay, but in most cases the installation package is going to view that as a modified file and manage it in some weird way which is why I think it's cleaner to only change the soft link.
Keep it clean, don't delete or edit anything in /etc/apache2/sites-available/.
Create all new site configurations in /etc/apache2/sites-available/. Copy whatever site configuration you want enabled to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/. Only make sure /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ has only one configuration file.
Sample format for new apache site configurations in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName http://localhost
ServerAdmin admin#mysite.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mysiteroot/public
<Directory /var/www/html/mysiteroot>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Notice that 000-default.conf is by default in both directories mentioned above and should only be replaced by your new configuration in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ so that it can be restored anytime you need it.
Restart Apache2 service after you make any configuration changes.
How can I set up Apache 2.2 to load the site from htdocs/example/ when I write in the address bar example.local?
Thanks in advance
You have to make sure that example.local resolves to your local machine, easiest way is by adding a line like
127.0.0.1 example.local
to your hosts file (linux: /etc/hosts; win: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts).
And than you need a vhost in your apache config, like (this is very basic)
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerName example.local
DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs
ErrorLog /path/to/error.log
CustomLog /path/to/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
That way you should be able to to access files in htdocs/example/ via http://example.local/example/
For more details please refer to the fine apache manual