Subject: Re: Apache Virtual Hosts
From: Elliott Liggett (kilowatt@cinci.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jul 14 2001 - 19:28:14 MDT
Well, who ever does your dns needs to make a cname record like this:
support.csd-bes.net CNAME csd-bes.net
see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html for a detailed
explanation.
Also, here's a copy of the end of my apache configuration file. All the sites
have the same ip address.
(yeah, its mac os x, but apache isn't noticeably different).
#</VirtualHost>
Include /private/etc/httpd/users
ServerName lfnet.net
NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents
ServerName www.lfnet.net
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents/Manual
ServerName manual.lfnet.net
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents/phat
ServerName phat.tarus.lfnet.net
</VirtualHost>
I hope this helps, let us know if it doesn't.
Rob Brandt wrote:
> DNS is being handled by my ISP, BTW.
>
> I asked this question of my ISP last week in preparation - I wanted to
> understand how this works. "When I add 'support.csd-bes.net' as a virtual
> host, do you need to add a DNS entry for it?" "No, that's handled by
> apache", he said. Now, maybe I didn't ask the question right, or maybe he
> thought I was talking about something else, or I misunderstood his answer,
> but at least it seems I had the right idea. Maybe he thought I was talking
> about registering domains.
>
> Now, to clarify, BOTH www.csd-bes.net and support.csd-bes.net are
> permanently going to have to same IP address, and the pages that come up
> will be determined solely by the name. So my ISP has to add a DNS entry
> for support.csd-bes.net. Or is this a kind of DNS I do on my server?
>
> Rob
>
> At 04:10 PM 7/14/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >Stupid question time: Is there a DNS entry for support.csd-bes.net??
> >It doesn't look like it. Hence, the browser has no idea where
> >support.csd-bes.net is located and it's the *browser* reporting
> >server not found. The request doesn't even make it to Apache.
> >
> >Domain (and host names) are shorthands for the 'Net. The Net only
> >really knows about IP addresses. When you say www.apple.com, the
> >DNS servers translates that name to the IP address (sort of like
> >if you tell someone "Call Charlie", they dial Charlie's phone number;
> >the phone company doesn't know Charlie, just his phone number.
> >
> >At 12:27 PM -0700 7/14/01, Rob Brandt wrote:
> > >Hi.
> > >
> > >What's not working is when I try and add a new virtual server, such as
> > "support.csd-bes.net". If I add:
> > >
> > ><VirtualHost 208.199.219.39>
> > >DocumentRoot /var/www/html
> > >ServerName support.csd-bes.net
> > ></VirtualHost>
> > >
> > >Browsing to http://support.csd-bes.net results in "server not
> > found". So what am I missing? I've looked on the apache web site and it
> > looks like I'm doing everything right, but I cannot find examples of
> > exactly what I'm doing above. The examples reflect virtual servers with
> > completely different domain names, not different 'servers' of the main
> > domain. BTW, you may have noticed that my DocumentRoot is the same for
> > both virtual hosts above, but it is not my intent to actually have them
> > point to the same location once they are working. I *think* that's what
> > aliasing is for, and it's not what I want to do. I just haven't set up
> > any pages or location for 'support.csd-bes.net' yet.
> > >
> > >TIA
> > >
> > >Rob
> >
> >
> >--
> >===========================================================================
> > Jim Jagielski [|] jim@jaguNET.com [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/
> > "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order
> > will lose both and deserve neither"
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