Virtual Host does not work please help

[yoramdar]

Hi,
Recently I have purchased a new Domain name, which I would like to dedicate to directory in my main website. I thought the best idea was to define a virtual host in the apache (I use apache 2).

To my surprise, when I defined one virtual host (the main website with the first domain name, and one virtual website with the new Domain Name) I couldn't access it. When I defined two virtual hosts (one for the main website and one for the new one), whichever domain name I had first declared was the only one I could access with the both domain names.

Could anyone help me with this issue?

 

[siberian]

Please post your vhost configurations for us to look at.

 

[blizz]

Check your virtual host section looks similiar to this and make sure that the NameVirtualHost points to your IP:
NameVirtualHost 10.1.1.1

*The first virtual host entry should be your default domain:

<VirtualHost 10.1.1.1>
ServerName

http://www.defaultdomain.com

ServerAlias defaultdomain.com
DocumentRoot /home/domainone/www
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 10.1.1.1>
ServerName

http://www.newdomain.com

ServerAlias newdomain.com
DocumentRoot /home/newdomain/www
</VirtualHost>



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[yoramdar]

Hi guys,
Thanks for answering quickly.
The httpd.conf definitions are as flow:
The first two are the default hosts and the others are the new host.
I have been told that I need to define two VHOST for every virtual host one with

http://www and

one without.
I have one IP address, which is being pointed by both domain names. And it seems that the DNS definitions are O.K.

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName

http://www.embassyofisrael.org

DocumentRoot /home/

http://www/data-dist/

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName embassyofisrael.org
DocumentRoot /home/

http://www/data-dist/

</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName

http://www.israel4kids.org

DocumentRoot /home/

http://www/data-dist/kids/

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName israel4kids.org
DocumentRoot /home/

http://www/data-dist/kids/

</VirtualHost>

 

[RhythmAce]

You do NOT need two vhosts for each domain. You would use ServerAlias instead :

ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias

http://www.mydomain.com

You will also need to check two more things. This directive should be uncommented. It is usually just above the sample vhost container:

NameVirtualHost * (If you don't see it, add it)

You will also nee to make sure that UseCanonicalName is set to Off

 

[yoramdar]

Thanks,

It does work.
I used ServerAlias and NameVirtualHost *

I also commented ServerName

Thank you very much

 

[RhythmAce]

You shouldn't coment out ServerName. When you are using name based addressing on one ip, that is how apache finds the correct server. What I was saying is that you should use both ServerName and ServerAlias for one domain instead of creating two vhosts.