[ale] NameVirtualHost problems
Jim Popovitch
jimpop at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 3 12:43:49 EDT 2001
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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > I couldn't quite remember what I was going to say
> > > so I causally tip another sip of whatever it was I was
> > > drinking,
> > >
> > > --
> > > To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in
> > > message body.
> >
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
> > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
> > --
> > To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in
> message body.
> >
>
> --
> I couldn't quite remember what I was going to say
> so I causally tip another sip of whatever it was I was
> drinking,
>
> --
> To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in
> message body.
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
--
To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.
More information about the Ale
mailing list