Topic awaiting preservation: Virtual Hosts with Apache

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Ok I recently bought another domain name.

Now lets say I have 2 domains

mydomain.org

which is my primary domain and when accessed it loads webpages from my server box in /var/www/html


I just bought

mydomain2.com


and Then i went into /etc/httpd/config/ httpd.conf
which is the apache configure file

and I added the lines....

Code:
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<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mydomain2.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/virtual/mydomain2
</VirtualHost>

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now should this not accept anything with that domain, and make it access from that document root?

And yes i made sure that 'mydomain2.com' points towards my ip address.

IS it posisble to have to domain names point to one IP address? I have virtual hosts working fine for the first domain.

ie.

test.mydomain.org

works when I use the following in the httpd.conf

Code:
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<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test.mydomain.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/virtual/test
</VirtualHost>

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Any Suggestions? I believe i just have to do soemthing different with my Virtual hosts code.

It should already be configured but you also need

NameVirtualHost *

in your httpd.conf the * can be your IP as well but the wildcard should work fine. Name based hosting is actually recommended over IP based.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Yes, it is possible to have many domains pointed to the same IP addy. Your webhost should do it for you.

ducati: seems marf's his own host.

All I can think is that 'ServerName mydomain2.com' will only match exactly 'mydomain2.com'... you'll probably want *.mydomain2.com, so that www.mydomain2.com is also served from the right directory (and not from the default virtual host (usually the first one)).

holler, if you still can't get it to work,
TP

PS: domain name ip updates usually take at least 24h till they're effective world-wide.

Ok im at school right now. Once i get home i'm gonna play with it and try to fix it.

Ok I now have it partially working.

when i type ' http://mydomain2.com' inthe address bar it works, but when i type ' http://www.mydomain2.com '
it doens't work

I tried adding to the nameservers

Nameservers *.mydomain2.com

ie...

#New domain Here



<VirtualHost *>

ServerName *.mydomain2.com

DocumentRoot /var/www/virtual/mydomain2

</VirtualHost>

But that didn't work

Any suggestions?

[This message has been edited by marf (edited 11-07-2003).]