I have two vhosts the default one and another one:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.eve-stuff.com
ServerAlias *.eve-stuff.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/test
<Directory /var/www/html/test>
Options +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
#Require all denied
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
This one should just redirect all subdomains that a not specifically setup to the test directory.
This is another vhost i have:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName dev.eve-stuff.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/dev
<Directory /var/www/html/dev>
Options +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
This one should show the dev folder for the dev subdomain.
From what I understood from the apache doc the ServerAlias *.eve-stuff.com in the first host will always catch UNLESS another vhost has specifically been created for the address.
However dev.eve-stuff.com still redirects to the test folder not to the dev folder, as it should.
All dns entries, also for the subdomains, point to the right IP.
I am running Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu).
Turns out the order in which it is setup matters.
Apache apparently looks for the matching host it can find.
Since the first config was in 000-default.conf and the second one was in the 020-dev.conf the dev-subdomain matched the first vhost and used that.
I changed default to 999-default.conf which means now dev will first be matched with the proper vhost but other undefined subdomains will still be matched with the default vhost.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not even sure if this is doable...
I've configured my vhosts file in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled which you can see here:
<VirtualHost 159.203.171.140:8080>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName 159.203.171.140:8080
DocumentRoot "/home/wiki/public_html"
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
<Directory "/home/wiki/public_html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/wiki_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/wiki_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
for a digitalocean droplet given at the IP listed in the above hosts file. This droplet has absolutely nothing on it except for the wiki user in /home/ plus the required php, mysql/mariadb, apache stuff.
What I want to be able to do is to go to 159.203.171.140:8080 and see my site without having to purchase a useless domain name.
I'd really appreciate some help with this one.
If you have only one website on the droplet, then you don't need to set up a virtual host. You can use the 000-default.conf, no need for a2ensite.
You do not need the ServerName, which won't work with the IP as a name, you also don't need the IP address in the VirtualHost directive.
So, instead of this:
<VirtualHost 159.203.171.140:8080>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName 159.203.171.140:8080
DocumentRoot "/home/wiki/public_html"
...
You can use this in your 000-default.conf file
<VirtualHost *:8080>
DocumentRoot "/home/wiki/public_html"
...
The rest of the directive stays as you have it.
Also, one note, if you are using port 8080, then you need go to /etc/apache2/ports.conf and set the Listen to 8080 (restart Apache after doing this).
I am very new to Apache2 and I am attempting to serve two websites on a server.
I have followed the documentation here: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/vhosts/examples.html
and have attempted:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "var/www/websiteexample1.com"
ServerName www.websiteexample1.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "var/www/websiteexample2.com"
ServerName www.websiteexample2.com
</VirtualHost>
However if i attempt to go to www.websiteexample2.com I am instead directed to the content of www.websiteexample1.com
What am i missing?
Your issue may be that you have not setup an associated Directory in the main conf file? Something along the lines of :-
#======================================================================
# Note this one is for the secondary root (for www.websiteexample2.com
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
<Directory "Your 2nd Website's Directory here">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
You also need to tell Apache to use/look at the virtual hosts file. So if you haven't got the following, ensuring that it is not commented out and that it points to the correct location :-
# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
This based upon a 2.2.6 version of Apache
I'm working with XAMPP on Mac OS X.
I'm trying to run a Symfony website properly for a client, and I really don't know Symfony (yet). I just want to install and launch it.
I've changed my /etc/hosts file this way:
127.0.0.1 www.mysite.local
And the httpd.conf file this way:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mysite.local
DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/web
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/web>
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
Alias /sf /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf
<Directory "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/lib/vendor/symfony/data/web/sf">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Now, the site is working (yay!), but I can't access any more any of my other local sites because localhost is rendered as www.mysite.local.
Where am I wrong?
This worked for me!
To run projects like http://localhost/projectName:
<VirtualHost localhost:80>
ServerAdmin localhost
DocumentRoot path/to/htdocs/
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
To run projects like http://somewebsite.com locally:
<VirtualHost somewebsite.com:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs/somewebsiteFolder
ServerName www.somewebsite.com
ServerAlias somewebsite.com
</VirtualHost>
The same for other websites:
<VirtualHost anothersite.local:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs/anotherSiteFolder
ServerName www.anothersite.local
ServerAlias anothersite.com
</VirtualHost>
localhost will always redirect to 127.0.0.1. You can trick this by naming your other VirtualHost to other local loop-back address, such as 127.0.0.2. Make sure you also change the corresponding hosts file to implement this.
For example, my httpd-vhosts.conf looks like this:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/6. App Data/XAMPP Shared/htdocs/intranet"
ServerName intranet.dev
ServerAlias www.intranet.dev
ErrorLog "logs/intranet.dev-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/intranet.dec-access.log" combined
<Directory "D:/6. App Data/XAMPP Shared/htdocs/intranet">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
(Notice that in <VirtualHost> section I typed 127.0.0.2:80. It means that this block of VirtualHost will only affects requests to IP address 127.0.0.2 port 80, which is the default port for HTTP.
To route the name intranet.dev properly, my hosts entry line is like this:
127.0.0.2 intranet.dev
This way, it will prevent you from creating another VirtualHost block for localhost, which is unnecessary.
This is normal if you see it. Since it is the first virtual host entry, it will show local host.
Let’s say for example you didn't want that page to show. All you want to show is the "Apache, it works" page, so you would make a vhost entry before mysite.local as local host and point it to the "it works" page.
But this is normal. I had this problem before, so don't worry!
You may want to use this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "somepath\Apache2.2\htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
as your first virtual host (place it before other virtual hosts).
I had the same issue of accessing localhost while working with virtualHost. I resolved it by adding the name in the virtualHost listen code like below:
In my hosts file, I have added the below code (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) -
127.0.0.1 main_live
And in my httpd.conf I have added the below code:
<VirtualHost main_live:80>
DocumentRoot H:/wamp/www/raj/main_live/
ServerName main_live
</VirtualHost>
That's it. It works, and I can use both localhost, phpmyadmin, as well as main_live (my virtual project) simultaneously.
Additional description for John Smith's answer from the official documentation. To understand why it is.
Main host goes away
If you are adding virtual hosts to an existing web server, you must
also create a block for the existing host. The
ServerName and DocumentRoot included in this virtual host should be
the same as the global ServerName and DocumentRoot. List this virtual
host first in the configuration file so that it will act as the
default host.
For example, to work properly with XAMPP, to prevent VirtualHost overriding the main host, add the follow lines into file httpd-vhosts.conf:
# Main host
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "/xampp/htdocs"
</VirtualHost>
# Additional host
<VirtualHost *:80>
# Over directives there
</VirtualHost>
For someone doing everything described here and still can't access:
XAMPP with Apache 2.4:
In file httpd-vhost.conf:
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/dir"
ServerName something.dev
<Directory "D:/xampp/htdocs/dir">
Require all granted #apache v 2.4.4 uses just this
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
There isn't any need for a port, or an IP address here. Apache configures it on its own files. There isn't any need for NameVirtualHost *:80; it's deprecated. You can use it, but it doesn't make any difference.
Then to edit hosts, you must run Notepad as administrator (described below). If you were editing the file without doing this, you are editing a pseudo file, not the original (yes, it saves, etc., but it's not the real file)
In Windows:
Find the Notepad icon, right click, run as administrator, open file, go to C:/WINDOWS/system32/driver/etc/hosts, check "See all files", and open hosts.
If you were editing it before, probably you will see it's not the file you were previously editing when not running as administrator.
Then to check if Apache is reading your httpd-vhost.conf, go to folder xampFolder/apache/bin, Shift + right click, open a terminal command here, open XAMPP (as you usually do), start Apache, and then on the command line, type httpd -S. You will see a list of the virtual hosts. Just check if your something.dev is there.
According to this documentation: Name-based Virtual Host Support
You may be missing the following directive:
NameVirtualHost *:80
Just change <VirtualHost *:80> to <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>.
Then the default DocumentRoot will serve for all domains or IP addresses that point to your server and specified VirtualHost will work.
It may be because your web folder (as mentioned "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite/web") is empty.
My suggestion is first to make your project and then work on making the virtual host.
I went with a similar situation. I was using an empty folder in the DocumentRoot in httpd-vhosts.confiz and I couldn't access my shahg101.com site.
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus). This is what worked for me:
Open up a terminal and cd to /etc/apache2/sites-available. There
you will find a file called 000-default.conf.
Copy that file: cp 000-default.conf example.local.conf
Open that new file (I use Nano; use what you are comfortable with).
You will see a lot of commented lines, which you can delete.
Change <VirtualHost *:80> to <VirtualHost example.local:80>
Change the document root to reflect the location of your files.
Add the following line: ServerName example.local And if you need to, add this line: ServerAlias www.example.local
Save the file and restart Apache: service Apache2 restart
Open a browser and navigate to example.local. You should see your website.
For anyone using Windows and the Bitnami WAMP Stack Manager Tool this virtual host configuration should go into Bitnami\apache2\conf\bitnami\bitnami.conf
Note: Some settings in Directory section is not a must.
For example, my virtual host configuration for site.com would be as follows:
<VirtualHost site.com:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/Bitnami/apache2/htdocs/site/docroot"
<Directory "C:/Bitnami/apache2/htdocs/site/docroot">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
<IfVersion < 2.3 >
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</IfVersion>
<IfVersion >= 2.3 >
Require all granted
</IfVersion>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Remember that configuration for vhost as mentioned, by other friends, sagits's answer is needed.
I have a one project being hosted in Apache under a specific subdomain:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName dev.example.com
DocumentRoot /web/vhosts/dev.example.com
<Directory />
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I want to serve another project under a subdirectory of this domain:
dev.example.com/special-project
Which lives in /web/vhosts/special-project. I also can't simply create a symlink to this directory because of the way the original project is structured. It has to be configured using Apache only.
How do I configure Apache to be able to do this? Also, can this type of configuration be specified in a separate file, or does it have to be part of the original VirtualHost definition?
Use an Alias.
Alias /special-project/ /web/vhosts/special-project/
Just add another virtual host like:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName special-project.example.com
DocumentRoot /web/vhosts/special-project
<Directory />
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>