Linux – Apache Virtual Hosts Not Working

apache-2.2linuxvirtualhost

EDIT: I was able to get this to work. There was a VirtualHost entry in httpd.conf that was effecting the Virtual Hosts in my vhosts.conf file.

I am trying to set up a CentOS server and configure it with two virtual hosts. This server is going to be replacing a Solaris server with the same settings. On the Solaris (current) server, the virtual hosts work, but on the new server, the first one is called regardless of what sent it (modifying hosts file).

SSL virtual host works.

I have tried to add "NameVirtualHost *:80", but get

[Thu Jun 30 14:43:38 2011] [warn] default VirtualHost overlap on port 80, the first has precedence
[Thu Jun 30 14:43:38 2011] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

Does anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: I forgot to post my configurations.

NameVirtualHost *:80
…
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/domain1"
ServerName domain1
ServerAlias www.domain1

AllowOverride All
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/domain2"
ServerName domain2
ServerAlias www.domain2

AllowOverride All
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</VirtualHost>

Best Answer

remove the NameVirtualHost *:80 or comment it #NameVirtualHost

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Apache2 multiple hostnames redirected to one

To be fairly honest with you, the best approch i can see for this would be if you setup your main domain normally like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.example.com
    DocumentRoot /www/domain 
</virtualhost>

Then you create a new virtualhost that will hold all domains you want to redirect like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias foo.example.com bar.example.com others.example.com
    DocumentRoot /www/redirect_folder 
</virtualhost>

Inside that folder make a simple index.php page that summons the 301 so any domains hold in there will be redirect to your main domain with the 301 code.

<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.example.com" );
?>

Why do you think it is better this way ?

This way you won't have to keep updating a bunch of places everytime you have a new domain to hold and redirct to your main domain and it won't be serving your users with the current name but will actually redirect them to your main domain in question.

If you are the server owner you can make it even better, you can put the 2nd virtualhost as the first virtualhost in your httpd.conf of vhost.conf file and whenever you hit the IP of your server it will lead you to the redirection page which will lead your users to the main domain in this case instead of having to set a bunch of ServerAlias you can just create the DNS A record for that given subdomain or domain leading to your IP and the server will take care of the rest.

In this last case all you would need for your virtual host would be:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    DocumentRoot /www/redirect_folder 
</virtualhost>

as you dont need the ServerAlias since every and each request that hits your server IP will go to your first vhost.

In addition if you wanted to do this using .htaccess, it would be something like this i belive:

RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^foo.example.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

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