[ale] NameVirtualHost problems

[Jim Popovitch]

The only reason for the seperate Directory entries would be if you want
to further restrict or allow additional permissions, (such as Indexes,
ExecCGI or FollowSymLinks) on a per website basis.  I typically
lock-down each website by allowing only the bare necessary permissions.

-Jim P.

--- Ken Nagorski <kenn at pcintelligent.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> 	Thank you for the information. I have on question. I am not sure
> about the <Directory /home/billybob/public_html> entry part. I have
> never
> done that before and it has always worked fine. Actually for this
> particulauar case I added the ServerAlias line and that seemed to
> make
> things happy as before www.domain.com wokred and doamin.com did not.
> Now
> they both work.
> 
> 	Should I add the <Directory /home/billybob/public_html> in the
> global apache config? Do I need to if it all works. Thank you for the
> input.
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
>  On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> > Ken,
> > 
> > First, for every website make sure that you have defined a
> directory
> > entry that can be used as DocumentRoot, they should be in this
> format:
> > 
> >    <Directory /home/billybob/public_html>
> >         AllowOverride AuthConfig
> >         Order allow,deny
> >         Allow from all
> >    </Directory>
> > 
> > Next you will need one or more VirtualHost entries per website,
> Here is
> > an example of 2 entries used for one site:
> > 
> >    <VirtualHost 192.168.1.10>
> >       ServerAdmin admin at billybob.net
> >       ServerName billybob.net
> >       DocumentRoot /home/billybob/public_html
> >       ErrorLog /var/log/apache/billybob_error_log
> >       CustomLog /var/log/apache/billybob_access_log combined
> >    </VirtualHost>
> >    <VirtualHost 192.168.1.10>
> >       ServerAdmin admin at billybob.net
> >       ServerAlias www.billybob.net web.billybob.net
> >       Redirect permanent / http://billybob.net
> >    </VirtualHost>
> > 
> > Notice how the second section permanently redirects the 'www' and
> 'web'
> > requests to the main site. You can even use wildcards in the
> > ServerAlias statement.
> > 
> > No, I don't own (or care to own) billybob.net. :)  But if you want
> to
> > try this out, here are a few sites that I do have configured:
> > 
> >   http://fotw.jimpop.net will redirect to http://flagspot.net
> >   http://anything-else.jimpop.net will rewrite to http://jimpop.net
> >   http://jimpop.net/ermb will redirect and rewrite to
> > http://netcoolusers.org/archive
> > 
> > hth,
> > 
> > -Jim P.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- Ken Nagorski <kenn at pcintelligent.com> wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > 	OK. I am having a totally confusing problem. I have a bunch of
> > > NameVirtualHosts in my apache setup thanks to your friends at
> > > Northpoint!
> > > It seems to work fine and I have done this before. You add the
> > > directive
> > > "NameVirtualHost <IPaddress>" and then procceed to add domains
> like
> > > you
> > > always would. Now most of these work however some have errors.
> They
> > > bring
> > > up the wrong domain. ome random domain. Not the first in the list
> not
> > > that
> > > last just sometiems it doesn't work? I am baffeled by this. It's
> so
> > > simple
> > > and there is NOTHING different other that the presence of the
> > > NameVirtualHost in the conf file.
> > > 
> > > 	Could it be a DNS issue somehow? I am lost. I did notice it
> see,s
> > > to be OK when I say www.doamin.com but not when I say domain.com
> > > however I
> > > am not sure if that is true in all cases.
> > > 
> > > 	Any help anyone has would be totally appreciated...
> > > 
> > > Thank you
> > > Ken 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  -- 
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> > >            so I causally tip another sip of whatever it was I was
> > > drinking,
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