Share directory config accross apache vhosts - apache

I have several vhosts setup in apache (CentOS), in a external file conf.d/vhost.conf
They all have a config like so:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot "/app/example_site/public"
<Directory "/app/example_site/public">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
In the e.g. 20 virtualhosts defined in this conf file, and the part between <Directory "xxxx"> </Directory> is the same for each vhost. It should be possible to use a default directory config for each vhost right? I can't find/figure out how to do this?

Just dump the common info into a file and use the Include directive to load it:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot "/app/example_site/public"
<Directory "/app/example_site/public">
Include "/path/to/common_dir_config.conf"
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

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XAMPP virtualhost site with all configs not working

I am trying to run site my.com locally on XAMPP's apache server. Here my configurations in httpd-vhosts.conf file in the path ...\XAMPP\apache\conf\extra:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/IDEs/XAMPP/htdocs"
ServerName localhost
<Directory "D:/IDEs/XAMPP/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/IDEs/Websites/my.com"
ServerName my.com
<Directory "D:/IDEs/Websites/my.com">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Also, I remembered to add two lines in the hosts file, with is located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 my.com
However, when I enter via link 'my.com' with enabled apache server, I've got only page with folder directories, which are in htdocs XAMPP's folder.
I have checked a lot of videos and stackoverflow questions, but nothing helped.
I would be pleased if you could help me with solving this issue.
first you should arrange directories on httpd.conf
example:
<Directory "C:/SERVER~1/web/site1">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "C:/SERVER~1/web/site2">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
and then arrange vhosts.conf like this
example :
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.site1.com
DocumentRoot "C:/SERVER~1/web/site1"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName site1.com
DocumentRoot "C:/SERVER~1/web/site1"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.site2.com
DocumentRoot "C:/SERVER~1/web/site2"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName site2.com
DocumentRoot "C:/SERVER~1/web/site2"
</VirtualHost>
After five days-night of reading, searching, trying, I finnally fould the solution and done it in some steps:
First of all, forget about every file, and concentrate on the httpd-ssl.conf which is located in D:\IDEs\XAMPP\apache\conf\extra.
Second:
find the line "SSL Virtual Host Context" which has been commented. And below, find the line <VirtualHost _default_:443>.or simmilar. Then change it to <VirtualHost *:443>.
Third, change document root to the path of xampp's htdocs, for example, "D:/XAMPP/htdocs". Also, change ServerName from www.example.com:443 or similar, to localhost.
Here we done.
And Finally, after line </VirtualHost>, insert code
<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot "D:/IDEs/Websites/my.com"
ServerName my.com
<Directory "D:/IDEs/Websites/my.com">
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Change Document Root and Directory paths to your website location. And Servername to your server name.
RESTART APACHE
it works for me.
I also understood than some website uses SSL on localhost while the others not.
SO if you have exception like Apache/2.4.37 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2p PHP/7.0.33 Server at my.com Port 443 you shold add your virtualhost configs into httpd-ssl.conf file.
If you got like ... Port 80 add yourl virtualhost configs into httpd-vhosts.conf

Apache2 subdomain redirects to main domain

I have an EC2 instance setup running Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache. I have a single elastic IP serving multiple domains and subdomains all of which point to individual folders on the server. The problem I am having is unless the subdomain is explicitly set in my .conf it will redirect to the main domain. I can't seem to find a definitive answer here or in google.
I have a single .conf file residing in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ serving all of the domains and subdomains like so:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me#mydomain.com
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mydomain.com
<Directory /var/www/html/mydomain.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me#mydomain.com
ServerName sub1.mydomian.com
ServerAlias www.sub1.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/sub1.com
<Directory /var/www/html/sub1.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me#mydomain.com
ServerName sub2.mydomian.com
ServerAlias www.sub2.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/sub2.com
<Directory /var/www/html/sub2.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me#mydomain.com
ServerName mydomain2.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain2.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mydomain2.com
<Directory /var/www/html/mydomain2.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
So if I go to sub1.mydomain.com or sub2.mydomain.com it gets properly routed. But if I type sub3.mydomain.com which does not exist in my .conf file it gets redirected to mydomain.com. I do not want this behavior. How do I resolve this?
You need to enable name based virtualhosts. Add below line before your first virtual host and restart apache.
NameVirtualHost :80

Default website in name-based apache virtual host configuration

I am using name-based virtual host configuration, to serve different websites
from the same IP address. For example:
http://www.myserver.com/website1
http://www.myserver.com/website2
http://www.myserver.com/website3
...
http://www.myserver.com/websiten
All of them are stored into my server, in the directories:
/var/www/website1
/var/www/website2
/var/www/website3
...
/var/www/websiten
I want to use website1 as default website when browsing to URL:
http://www.myserver.com
To do that, I'm trying this method:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www
ServerName www.myserver.com
Alias / /var/www/website1 ### ALIAS HERE
<Directory /var/www/website1>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/website2>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
...
<Directory /var/www/websiten>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
But it doesn't work. Please, help.
Why don't you create hosts file like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.myserver.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/website1"
</VirtualHost>
Then create symlinks in your var/www/website1/ dir to point to the other dirs?
cd /var/www/website1/
ln -s /var/www/website2/ website2
ln -s /var/www/website3/ website3
if you have different domain names then you can configure vhost like so without symlinks, first instance uses the ServerAlias directive:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myserver.com
ServerAlias www.myserver.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/website1"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName trac.myserver.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/website2"
</VirtualHost>
I have finally fixed my issue. I have replaced
Alias / /var/www/website1 ### ALIAS HERE
by this Directory section:
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
RedirectMatch ^/$ /website1/
</Directory>
RedirectMatch fixes my issue. Now, when I browse this URL:
http://www.myserver.com
it is automatically converted to this:
http://www.myserver.com/website1/
I'm not sure if that is the best way to solve my issue, but at least, it works as expected. This can be marked as [Solved] yet.
Thank you in advance for help! :)

Apache vhost not working for subdomains

I have this configuration but both url app.test.com & stage.test.com
redirect to same code/deployment
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName app.test.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/Test-Prod/web
<Directory "/var/www/html/Test-Prod/web">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog logs/test-prod__error_log
CustomLog logs/test-prod_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName stage.test.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/Test/web
<Directory "/var/www/html/Test/web">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog logs/test-website_error_log
CustomLog logs/test-website_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
The usual error for this is leaving out the NameVirtualHost directive if you're still using httpd 2.2
Add the following in your config file and it'll probably work
NameVirtualHost *.80
You might want to read the documentation for Named-based Virtual Host Support with httpd 2.2.
NameVirtualHost *.80
<VirtualHost localhost:80>
ServerName color
ServerAlias localhost
ServerPath "C:/wamp/www/subwww/color"
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/subwww/color">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
in above code, subdomain name is color
and the url is http://color.localhost/
if the operating system is windows then add "127.0.0.1 color.localhost" in "C:/windows/system32/dirvers/etc/hosts" with notepad run as administration

Named VirtualHost in apache overrides every other VirtualHosts

I have defined two VirtualHosts on Apache, and the problem is, one of them overrides the other one. i.e. when I try to reach the second address, the first one shows up.
Here is my first config:
ServerName www.example1.com
DocumentRoot /server/sites/example1
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#example1.com
DocumentRoot /server/sites/example1
ServerAlias example1.com
<Directory /server/sites/example1/>
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And the second:
ServerName www.example2.tv
DocumentRoot /server/sites/tv/public/
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#example2.tv
DocumentRoot /server/sites/tv/public
<Directory /srver/sites/tv/public>
# This relaxes Apache security settings.
AllowOverride all
# MultiViews must be turned off.
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
When I load www.example2.tv, it still shows www.example1.com content.
example1 is written in PHP and example2 is Ruby on Rails.
You need to have the ServerName directive inside the VirtualHost configuration i.e.:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example2.tv
ServerAdmin admin#example2.tv
DocumentRoot /server/sites/tv/public
<Directory /server/sites/tv/public>
# This relaxes Apache security settings.
AllowOverride all
# MultiViews must be turned off.
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
You can examine your configured VirtualHosts using apachectl -S - this will print a list of all the configured VirtualHosts and their corresponding config files