I have one site enabled, for example foobar.com.
But when I open IP address 127.0.0.1 - it's opens my foobar.com.
Whatever maps to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts I open - foobar.com is opened.
How can I configure virtualhost/apache to only allow access from foobar.com?
Apache 2.4, Ubuntu 13.10
Apache always uses the first VirtualHost as the "default" host. That is, whenever it can't map the requested hostname (127.0.0.1 in your case) to a specific VirtualHost, it will use that default one.
Just define another VirtualHost before the foobar.com one. If you have both in the same configuration, configure the default one first. If you have separate config files, name the "default" one so, that it gets loaded before the foobar.com one. Many Linux distributions use a name like 00-default.conf for the default VHost.
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So I am following the Ubuntu default style of hosting domains on a LAMP server, and as per widely available knowledge, For each domain to be hosted, I have to create a file with same name but with .conf as the extension, inside the following directory.
/etc/apache2/sites-available
So if I have to host example.com I will be creating a file example.conf with all the Apache directives for that specific domain. So far so good, now if I have to host an additional domain with same name but a different extension, say example.org what should I do?
One solution that is occurring to me is add the virtual host config to that same file beneath the previous code, so is this the way to go or is there any "correct" way?
You create your virtual host with the fqdn, eg, example.com.conf and example.org.conf
I have a problem, I had apache Solr installed and it uses localhost for access on webserver...
now I have installed Apache and startet httpd.exe and I get the warning / error:
Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName"
when I stop solr, I can start and use localhost for apache httpd...
but I want to have the possibility to use both webservices, how can I configure Apache to do that? and get access to service not with localhost, but with another domain name or some configuration in httpd.conf
I tried to change the line "ServerName www.example.com:80" in httpd.conf file but no effect,
sorry but I'm pretty new to webservers and Apache, how should I configure that?
You have several things mixed here:
Installing Solr should in no way be related to other questions, unless it is configured to run on port 80. If that is the case, you simply can not run two services on the same port so you have to pick, or just move Solr to 8080 or whatever.
Could not reliably determine... is just a friendly warning and will not prevent any functionality, and it should disappear when you add ServerName www.example.com:80 in httpd.conf
With default settings, Apache will respond to any http request that comes to port 80, so you don't have to configure anything there (and if you want to modify that, use VirtualHost). You can achieve reaching your webserver by other hostnames by editing hosts file on your machine. If you want others to be able to do that, you have to configure DNS (which is separate issue)
I'm trying to set up an ubuntu server to act as a dns server and host a simple webpage, some git repos, and some software for issue tracking, code review, and the like. I settled on Phabricator as the issue tracking/ code review software of choice, since it seemed to be a good all-in-one solution. I've got my server hosting my webpage and git repos, so that part seems to be working ok. Now here's the issue I've run into (from Phabricator configuration instructions):
If you haven't already, set up a domain name to point to the host you're installing on. You can either install Phabricator on a subdomain (like phabricator.example.com) or an entire domain, but you can not install it in some subdirectory of an existing website
I have no idea where to even begin setting up another domain name on my server. How do I set up a second domain name for Phabricator to use?
I see a lot of guides online that say to modify resolv.conf to add a dns entry, however mine looks like this:
Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 192.168.1.1
and I'm not sure what I should change to get dns entries to show up here.
I'm assuming you have only one IP address, which means you should be using virtual name-based hosting. There are a number of tutorials for doing this, but in short:
Create a virtual host configuration file in:
/etc/apache2/sites-available
For example:
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/phabricator
Run:
a2ensite phabricator (in this example, but use the configuration file name you used above)
apache2ctl restart
The configuration file (which can be named whatever you'd like) needs to contain a number of items. A simple example would look like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /www/example1
ServerName www.example.com
</VirtualHost>
DocumentRoot is the full path to the root of your site, usually where index.html, index.php, or the like is located. The default is /var/www. You could put somethig like /home/phabricator or /var/www/phabricator, but make sure you install Phabricator in the directory you specify.
ServerName is the full FQDN of your site, such as "www.google.com" or "phabricator.yourdomain.com" or even "phabricator.local". Basically it's the same value as you have set in your DNS for your A record, or in your /etc/hosts file. If you don't know about /etc/hosts, then disregard that part.
You'll probably need a few more directives in your configuration file, but you can find what's available on Google. I would suggest following some tutorials to get your configuraiton right.
But overall, you just need to create a virtual host config file, enable it, then restart the server, which is what the above instructions do. Apache will respond to the web request based on the site you put into your address bar.
P.S. Just noticed your DNS part of the question. Do you have DNS set up publicly to point a domain (example.com) or subdomain (something.example.com) to your server's IP address?
I'm having trouble figuring out how virtual hosting works. For example lets say in my 'hosts' file I have:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 mysite1.com mysite1.com mysite3.com
Does this mean that whenever I type in localhost, mysite1.com, mysite2.com, or mysite3.com into my browser URL, the page loaded will be the same for all of them?
The /etc/hosts file only has limited connection to virtual hosting of Apache. The only thing you do with it is give your host (or rather the loop back interace lo) several names. If you haven't set up anything about virtual hosting yet (which I assume) typing
http://localhost/
http://mysite1.com/
http://mysite2.com/
http://mysite3.com/
as URL in your browser will all render the same welcome page (provided you have at least set up your Apache) because in all cases the browser will try to access the web server at 127.0.0.1 which your Apache usually listens to.
To create a true virtual hosting you now need to activate this feature in the configuration file of Apache using the tags
<VirtualHost mysite1.com:80>
...
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost mysite2.com:80>
...
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost mysite3.com:80>
...
</VirtualHost>
The simplest version of a virtual hosting would be that you define a seperate document root for each host and share all other configuration items. The details of this (represented by the ...), of course, would definitely be out of scope of this answer. A good start for reading would be http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/examples.html.
I have an apache server configured with multiple NameVirtualHosts running on the same IP. This all works fine.
However, because of the "include conf.d/*" directive, apache also picks up config for cacti and phpmyadmin, which add in aliases for /cacti and /phpmyadmin, and those aliases appear to be valid for all virtualhosts. That is to say, I can go to http://firstvirtualhost/cacti and also http://secondvirtualhost/cacti, and I get the same page.
In my case, the default namevirtualhost is publicly visible, and I do not want tools like phpmyadmin or cacti to be visible under that URL
In fact, I don't want any random package to be able to make itself visible across all virtualhosts simply by creating a file for itself in conf.d.
You have to delete the line include conf.d from the global Apache configuration file, and optionally add it to your own private virtual host configuration file.