I own two domains which I want to point to my local server here at home:
www.first.com
www.second.com
They both point to my own server here at home (Yes I've already managed the A-record config at my webhotel where I registered the domains).
I've done the following:
In httpd.conf, I've uncommented the line Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
In httpd-vhosts.conf I have the following code:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName first.com
ServerAlias www.first.com
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/public/first"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName second.com
ServerAlias www.second.com
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/public/second"
</VirtualHost>
In the httpd.conf file, I've set document-root to C:\wamp\www\public, and this is the step I'm most uncertain of. What should the document root be in the httpd.conf file when the httpd-vhosts.conf file declares multiple document roots? I've tried to set the document root of httpd.conf to both C:/wamp/www/public and only C:/wamp/www/
What am I missing here? The pages won't load at all.
DocumentRoot for "main" server haven't sense as soon as you define Virthosts - known virthosts will be served from their definition, unknown - by first virthost in list
Create separate log-files per virthost and yes, check logs after access attept
The pages won't load at all
It's bad error-description. Which error-code you get? Do you have DirectoryIndex and index-file in virthost root? What about Allow/Disallow directives for Directory locations?
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I have setup VirtualHost and it works good when I use the domain (ex. www.website_1.se). The problem is that the DocumentRoot that is set for the VirtualHost is not applied when I visit the website through localhost (ex. localhost/website_1.se).
My root folder looks like this:
website_1.se, website_2.se, website_3.se
And my conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#website_1.se
ServerName website_1.se
ServerAlias www.website_1.se
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/website_1.se"
</VirtualHost>
Inside website_1.se, I have html-files with src attributes, some of them starts with '/', which refers to the root.
So if I have a src="/images/file.jpg" inside the index file of "website_1.se", and enter "localhost/website_1.se, Apache will try to load that image from localhost/images/file.jpg instead of localhost/website_1.se/images/file.jpg
So my question is. How can I use '/' in paths, so that it works the same way for both localhost and VirtualHost (domain)?
EDIT (I ask the question again, better and clearer this time hopefully.)
I need to be able to host multiple websites on my apache server.
I have managed to do it with the help of vhost.
For example:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName site_1.se
ServerAlias www.site_1.se
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/site_1.se"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName site_2.se
ServerAlias www.site_2.se
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/site_2.se"
</VirtualHost>
So when I enter www.site_1.se I get to localhost(htdocs)/site_1.se. And when I enter www.site_2.se I get to localhost(htdocs)/site_2.se and so on. Perfect, that's the point.
Now here is the problem. These folders (site_1.se & site_2.se) contains html-files, and in these files I have links with addresses that starts with '/', which refers to the root.
So for example if have: <img src="/images/file.png">
inside a html-file in site_1.se, Apache tries to locate the image in:
localhost/site_1.se/images/file.png (if entering www.site_1.se)
or
localhost/images/file.png (if entering localhost/site_1.se)
So this obviously becomes a problem when developing in localhost and using '/' at the beginning of paths. Because when you then visit the page from the domain name, the links are wrong.
So I'm wondering how can I set up apache, so I can specify paths starting with '/', and get the same root no matter how I visit the site?
for localhost configuration listen on different ports so as to distinguish between the different sites. You need to tell Apache to listen on those ports also.
Listen 80
Listen 81
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/site_1.se"
Require all granted
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:81>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/site_2.se"
Require all granted
</VirtualHost>
I have setup virtual hosts for separate projects on my localhost on my macOS. Here is the httpd-vhosts.conf file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot "/Users/Sammy/Sites"
ServerName 127.0.0.1
ServerAlias localhost
ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/localhost-error_log"
CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/localhost-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Users/Sammy/Sites/workspace/abc/public_html"
ServerName abc
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Users/Sammy/Sites/workspace/xyz/public_html"
ServerName xyz
</VirtualHost>
I have also updated the list of hosts. The problem is, when I access my sites using this link, The sites are not able to load the css/js files & images present outside the 'public_html' directory, while it works if I open it via localhost path..
I come from an ubuntu environment, The apache directory structure is quite older on mac! can anyone help me with this..
Thanks
The sites are not able to load the css/js files & images present outside the 'public_html' directory
That is rather the point.
The DocumentRoot is the root of the website. Everything under it is part of the site.
By putting something in the DocumentRoot you are giving it a URL and making it available to be requested over HTTP.
An HTTP server isn't designed to expose every private file on your whole hard disk to the world. That would be awful.
If you want to give a file a URL, then put it in the DocumentRoot (or look at the Alias directives).
I am trying to set up my apache module to dynamically direct all requests to a specific folder and then match the name to a folder of the same name.
To do this I set the following in my 000-default.conf file in the sites-available folder.
UseCanonicalName Off
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/example/%2
This worked great.
Then I wanted to setup a couple of different domains to not point to the example folder, but somewhere else, so I added a couple of these before the VirtualDocumentRoot line:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName sub1.example.com
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/sub1.example.com
</VirtualHost>
However, now the dynamic pointing does not work anymore and all the URL's are redirected to the first -> VirtualDocumentRoot location.
Can someone please indicate to me what I am doing wrong?
Full Code Example In apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName sub1.example.com
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/sub1.example.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName sub2.example.com
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/sub2.example.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName sub3.example.com
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/sub3.example.com
</VirtualHost>
UseCanonicalName Off
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/example/%2
Do not use VirtualDocumentRoot for simple Virtualhosts, use only DocumentRoot.
VirtualDocumentRoot defines the mass-virtualhost catch-all, and by definition you can only have one mass-virtualhost (else how could apache knows which VH a given hostname should match).
Edit:
Now you need some other changes:
- ensure you have NameVirtualHost *:80 somewhere in apache configuration (unless you use Apache 2.4).
- Move the Mass-Virtualhost as first, so it will become the default virtualhost. The default virtualhost is used when the request host name does not match any ServerName directive. (You can check the default VH by running apache with -S option).
I have figured out how to do this, and decided to post the solution here for anyone else sitting with a similar problem:
SO to setup apache2, using mod_vhost_alias to have all domains point to a generic folder with the same name, but specific domains to point elsewhere, this is what you need to do.
In your 000-default.conf site config file, write the following code:
UseCanonicalName Off
Then add the following block for each specific domain you want to point to a specific folder, replacing example.com with your domain name:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.*
DocumentRoot path/to/your/folder
</VirtualHost>
Then add the next block to point all other generic domains to a generic folder:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName vhosts.fqdn
ServerAlias www.*
VirtualDocumentRoot path/to/your/folder/%2+
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName vhosts.fqdn
ServerAlias *
VirtualDocumentRoot path/to/your/folder/%1+
</VirtualHost>
The first block will direct all domains, starting with www. to a folder matching the name after the www.
The second block is to direct the same domains, when no www. is specified, to the same folder.
For more information on the dynamic mass virtual host options to use in the document root, go to: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html
I'm having some problems with setting up a VirtualHost with Apache on CentOS. I'll try my best to explain what happens.
In our httpd.conf file we had to change the Document root, our base is /var/www/mydomain.com but our files is on /var/www/mydomain.com/store2 and when users goto mydomain.com we want them to come directly to mydomain.com/store2
Main config:
DocumentRoot "/var/www/mydomain.com/store2/"
Directory "/var/www/mydomain.com/store2"
So, I've added an config file inside conf.d named subdomains.conf and this is the information inside
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin mail#me.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/mydomain.com/subdomain
ServerName subdomain.mydomain.com
ErrorLog logs/subdomain.mydomain.com
CustomLog logs/subdomain.mydomain.com common
</VirtualHost>
When i restart the httpd service and goto mydomain.com I'm transferred to the virtual host root (/var/www/mydomain.com/subdomain) this also happens when i go to subdomain.mydomain.com. Is there something that I'm missing here? Could there be something with the DNS also? I see that mydomain.com and subdomain.mydomain.com points to the same IP-address.
Using Apache2 on a Linux system is there a way to have multiple VirtualDocumentRoot using mod_vhost_alias?
This is naming convention I am currently using and would like to continue to use:
host directory
127.0.0.1 domain domain.com
127.0.0.1 sub.domain domain.com_sub
Then in my vhosts section of the httpd.conf I have:
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%0.0.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%2.0.com_%1
</VirtualHost>
The problem with this is when I visit sub.domain the Apache error log shows that it is looking for /var/www/sub.domain.com rather than /var/www/domain.com_test which leads me to believe it only reads the first rule and then fails, but what I would like it to do is use any document root that satisfies either of the two VirtualDocumentRoot rules.
Apache typically will pick the first virtual host whose ServerName or ServerAlias matches the host name provided in the Host HTTP header. In your case, since you have no ServerName directives, Apache supposedly uses a reverse DNS lookup on the IP address to fake a server name, and presuming that the reverse DNS leads to domain.com, which doesn't match, Apache then defaults to the first virtual host. Sounds complicated, I know... the bottom line is, you should use ServerName and ServerAlias to make the configuration explicit. Try something more like this:
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%0
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName sub.domain.com
ServerAlias *.domain.com
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%2.%3_%1
</VirtualHost>
That should use /var/www/domain.com for http://domain.com and /var/www/www.domain.com for http://www.domain.com, both of which are served by the first vhost, and /var/www/sub.domain.com for http://sub.domain.com, /var/www/blah.domain.com for http://blah.domain.com, and so on.
You have to qualify the backreferences when you want to put a '.' in the file path. So you need to have it like this:
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%2.0.%3_%1
Regarding the OP and the issue with "/var/www/html" being set:
The problem I had to this was using %1 instead of %2. Here's my working example:
ServerAlias www.*.org.au
UseCanonicalName Off
VirtualDocumentRoot /path/to/sites/%2/pub
Hope that helps someone!
I read the docs on "Directory Name Interpolation" in mod_vhost_alias docs.
I finally found a configuration that allows flexible subdomain creation.
See apache docs on mod_vhost_alias
If your root dev domain has 3 parts like dev.example.com you can use %-4+ as a placeholder for everything before the root domain. If it has 4 parts, use %-5+.
<VirtualHost *:80>
VirtualDocumentRoot "/var/www/%-4+/webroot"
ServerName www.dev.example.com
ServerAlias *.dev.example.com
php_admin_value auto_prepend_file /var/www/setdocroot.php
</VirtualHost>
This way you can create a directory named /var/www/sub.domain/webroot and access it with the url sub.domain.dev.example.com.
The line php_admin_value auto_prepend_file /var/www/setdocroot.php fixes the docroot on some systems like OSX 10.9+
Here is the content of setdocroot.php :
<?php
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] = str_replace($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], '', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
?>
What I am noticing with this configuration is that $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is pointing to /var/www/html and not to the vhost's doc root.
weird.
Update (2010-07-24):
I just wrote a blog post how to setup your http proof server
http://www.devcha.com/2010/07/how-to-setup-your-http-proof-server.html