Newbie Question re: Virtual Hosts

[jjfletch]

Hi, I'm brand spanking new at this and am easily confused... If I provide too much information or too little, please forgive.

Right now, I have a domain name, an IP, and a dedicated server. The nameservers for that domain point to ns1.netsonic.com and ns2.netsonic.com. Everything's working ducky.

Since then, I've purchased another domain name that I'd like to also use on the same server. I thought I could accomplish this using virtual hosting. So, here's what I did:

1) For the new domain, I pointed its nameservers to ns1.netsonic.com and ns2.netsonic.com

2) On my server, I edited the httpd.conf file to include a Virtual Host entry. Here's that section from my file:

# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
#<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot /

http://www/docs/dummy-host.example.com

# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
DocumentRoot /usr/local/freejournalonline/
ServerName freejournalonline.com

3) I edited my /etc/hosts file:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
66.180.173.31 ded231-lin-173-31.netsonic.net ded231-lin-173-31
127.0.0.1 freejournalonline.com

4) I restarted apache.

Did I miss a step? Am I misunderstanding something? It isn't working, and I can't figure out what I've done wrong. Can someone please help? Thanks!

 

[Wishdiak]

jjfletch,

Since it isn't working, did you correctly configure DNS on ns1.netsonic.com and ns2.netsonic.com? If these nameservers don't have A records for your new domain, they won't point your domain name to the right IP address.

Wishdiak

http://www.wishdiak.com