I seem to be missing something with httpd.conf and virtual hosts

[elby]

I was hired as a programmer and my manager neglected to tell me that I would also be the only person in the department managing the server (RHEL 3). I can get around in Linux (it's been 17 years since I used to use a bit of Unix), but I would not consider myself competent in it.

The hosted website is quite large and is successfully running virtual hosts already. I was asked to create a blog for someone. That was fine. The problem I have is giving it a direct address.

In the httpd.conf file I found a working vh entry (I changed my school name to 'foo'):
# WORKING SETUP
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin *removed*
DocumentRoot /opt/webroot/html/cfac_r10/blogs/tmaseason
ServerName tmaseason.foo.edu
ServerAlias tmaseason.cfac.foo.edu
ErrorLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /opt/webaccess_logs/blog-tmaseason-error_log 500M"
CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /opt/webaccess_logs/blog-tmaseason-access_log 500M" combined
</VirtualHost>

The address of the above entry is mckinley.foo.edu/cfac_r10/blogs/tmaseason/

I have a blog I set up at: mckinley.foo.edu/cfac_r10/blogs/visualarts/
This address works.

I then added this to the httpd.conf (cut and paste above entry then minor mod):

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin *removed*
DocumentRoot /opt/webroot/html/cfac_r10/blogs/visualarts
ServerName visualartsblog.foo.edu
ServerAlias visualartsblog.cfac.foo.edu
ErrorLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /opt/webaccess_logs/blog-vablog-error_log 500M"
CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /opt/webaccess_logs/blog-vablog-access_log 500M" combined
</VirtualHost>

Save. Restart apache.

If I enter:
/usr/sbin/httpd -S

I see this vh in the listing (along with all the others--about 50--and it looks like all the others):

port 80 namevhost visualartsblog.byu.edu (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:1369)


However, my browser will not load the vh address (ie visualartsblog.foo.edu) the address is not found.

Apparently there is something else I need to do, but in my noobness I don't know. Web search indicates these are the steps I need to do . . . but . . . why am I stuck?

Many many thanks
elby

[b2bwild]

To make namebased virtualhost work, you should have entry for both hostnames having same IP address on DNS server.

To check if your configuration is working, add the proper entries in /etc/hosts.
e.g.

10.0.0.1 virtual.example.com
10.0.0.1 server.example.com