Is it possible in the apache config file to use regular expressions in the ServerName and ServerAlias field to have 2 domains use the exact same config file vs. creating 2 for each domain. I was trying something like this, but was getting an error from Apache:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#test.com
ServerName [test.com|test.net]
ServerAlias [www.test.com|www.test.net]
DocumentRoot /var/www/test.com/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
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I declared in my DNS, my domain, subdomain1 and subdomain2, and everything works.
Then I create my directories like this :
/var/www/domain.com/public_html/index.html /var/www/subdomain1.domain.com/public_html/index.html /var/www/subdomain2.domain.com/public_html/index.html
Then I create : /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain.conf
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.subdomain1.domain.com
ServerAlias www.subdomain1.domain.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/subdomain1.domain.com/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.subdomain2.domain.com
ServerAlias www.subdomain2.domain.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/subdomain2.domain.com/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.com/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
I disable the default configuration: sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
Then I activate each of the websites: sudo a2ensite domain.conf
I restart Apache 2: sudo systemctl restart apache2.service
The problem is that all links point to the first declared VirtualHost, even when I separate the VirtualHost declarations in separate .conf files, it will always be the first VirtualHost in the directory that will be opened for all DNS domains.
Apache will try to match the requested domain to one of the VirtualHost it knows about. When it cannot find a match, it will use the first one it read, top to bottom in the configurations. Hence here, your domains are not being recognized by Apache, and you get the first one all the time.
I modified your configuration a little bit:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.subdomain1.example.com
ServerAlias subdomain1.example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/subdomain1.example.com/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/sub1_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/sub1_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.subdomain2.example.com
ServerAlias subdomain2.example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/subdomain2.example.com/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/sub2_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/sub2_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/public_html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/example_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Details:
NameVirtualHost is only required if you run Apache 2.2. >2.4, it is automatic, no need to put it, it will work anyway.
ServerAlias is useful to define another domain name that applies to this VirtualHost. If you define ServerAlias == ServerName, it is useless.
Therefore, the ServerAlias are now configured with the domain names, without "www."
Split your log files. If you have 3 VH pointing to the same logs, it will be a real mess to debug. It makes it easier when split.
So with this configuration...
http://www.subdomain1.example.com and http://subdomain1.example.com will go to the 1st VH.
Similar for subdomain2
And http://www.example.com and http://example.com will use the third one.
This is based on your question and the comment where you say you tried example.com. In your configuration, example.com was not listed anywhere (i.e. www.example.com != example.com).
I've a server installed with Ubuntu 18.04 and on that server I've created new host for a new sub-domain:
api.example.com
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias api.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/searchcore
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Now I would like now to add another sub-domain "newapi.example.com" and I would like it to point to the same folder of the first domain (/var/www/searchcore).
Any idea how to do it?
Thanks
The ServerAlias directive accepts one or more names, so you can simply append the name of your new sub-domain to the existing ServerAlias directive like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias api.example.com newapi.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/searchcore
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Alternatively, you can also have multiple ServerAlias directives:
...
ServerAlias api.example.com
ServerAlias new.example.com
...
You might want to check out the docs here: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#serveralias
I have 2 sites linked to domains already.
For this I have 2 conf files into /etc/apache2/sites-available/:
<domain1>.conf
<domain2>.conf
With DocumentRoot /var/www/domain1 and DocumentRoot /var/www/domain2.
In addition, I need to setup the 3rd site direct linked to server IP.
For this I created conf file:
IP.conf (IP is IP of the server):
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin <email>
ServerName <IP>
ServerAlias <IP>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Run:
sudo a2ensite <IP>.conf
And:
restart apache service.
But it doesn't help.
Could you advise how to configure routing?
The issue is the default Apache config always uses the IP address of the server. So that IP.conf will never be loaded.
You need to edit the default Apache config — located in sites-available — to make your changes.
Looking at your config, you are indicating the raw IP address for the ServerName and ServerAlias that will — effectively — defeat the purpose of setting up name based virtual hosts:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin <email>
ServerName <IP>
ServerAlias <IP>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
What happens in a case like this is the configs will be ignored because the default Apache setup will always defer to the IP address of the machine you are on. Heck, it would even use all network interfaces if your server has multiple IP addresses.
For name based virtual hosting to work, you must use the domain/host name in your config. Something like this for domain1:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin <email>
ServerName <domain1>
ServerAlias <domain1>
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain1
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
And this for domain2
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin <email>
ServerName <domain2>
ServerAlias <domain2>
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain2
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Now for the IP address host config, you should go into your Apache config directory — /etc/apache2/ on Debian/Ubuntu or /etc/httpd/ on CentOS/RedHat — and look inside the sites-available directory. There should be a file named 000-default.conf:
/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
And make the changes you are showing in your IP.conf in there. At a most basic level just change the DocumentRoot to be this:
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
Then restart Apache and it should be working as expected.
I use a Ubuntu 16.04 server VM on which I have to configure the following domains:
maindomain.com:80
otherport.com:8080
Each domain pointing to the VM's IP, but to a different directory obviously.
I managed to get bind9 to make these domains point to the VM's IP when the VM is the DNS server, and I configured Apache to get the following results:
Good:
maindomain.com:80 returns maindomain's index
otherport.com:8080 returns otherport's index
Bad:
maindomain.com:8080 returns otherport's index
otherport.com:80 returns maindomain's index
If I put both on port 80, each is separated, but if I do different ports it seems that Apache just cares about the port.
How could I block the access to maindomain.com:8080 and otherport.com:80?
maindomain.com.conf file:
<VirtualHost maindomain.com:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName maindomain.com
ServerAlias www.maindomain.com maindomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/maindomain"
<Directory /var/www/html/maindomain>
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
otherport.com.conf file:
<VirtualHost otherport.com:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName otherport.com
ServerAlias www.otherport.com otherport.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/otherport"
<Directory /var/www/html/otherport>
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
I managed to get it done, but I think it's more of a dirty hack than an actual solution. I made two more virtual hosts like so :
maindomain.com.trap.conf
<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName maindomain.com
ServerAlias www.maindomain.com maindomain.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/maindomain"
<Directory /var/www/html/maindomain>
Require all denied
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
The other one having the names and port switched.
By the way, I left <VirtualHost *:80> and <VirtualHost *:8080> in the first two .conf files I mentioned in my first post.
I have one Linux server with Apache installed. I configured two sites in it using VirtualHost.
I configured the two VirtualHosts for two different domain names. The configuration looks like this:
<VirtualHost 12.123.123.123>
ServerAdmin info#example-one.com
ServerName example-one.com
ServerAlias www.example-one.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example-one
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 12.123.123.123>
ServerAdmin info#example-two.com
ServerName example-two.com
ServerAlias www.example-two.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example-two
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
When I visit my site example-one.com, then I see the correct website.
But when I visit example-two.com, then I see the website of example-one.com.
What am I doing wrong? I'm trying to host those two different websites under the same Apache server.
Do you have NameVirtualHost directive somewhere in your httpd config file?
This should work. Be aware that the first VirtualHost block is the default in case the http request does not match any other VirtualHost block.
For reference https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#namevirtualhost
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin info#example-one.com
ServerName example-one.com
ServerAlias www.example-one.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example-one
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin info#example-two.com
ServerName example-two.com
ServerAlias www.example-two.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example-two
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>