Virtual hosts in httpd.conf

[petenaylor]

Hi all

I am having trouble setting up name based virtual hosting on my Linux Webserver. I have two websites:


I need the lowcostchemicals site to use a SSL certificate which I have already created and added to a folder /var/www/websites/ssl/l/lowcostchemicals.co.uk/

The lowcostchemicals site needs to go into the folder: /var/www/websites/l/lowcostchemicals.co.uk
The peteandsteph.co.uk site needs to go into the folder /var/www/websites/p/peteandsteph.co.uk

I have tried to set up the virtual hosts but all of the sites go to the root folder: var/www/html/

Can anyone help?

Many thanks
Pete

[Schmidt]

Apache Virtual Host documentation - Apache HTTP Server
VirtualHost Examples - Apache HTTP Server
Name-based Virtual Host Support - Apache HTTP Server

The 'DocumentRoot' for each vhost must work properly.

What about SSL & virtual hosts:

IP-based virtual hosts use the IP address of the connection to determine 
the correct virtual host to serve. Therefore you need to have a separate IP 
address for each host. With name-based virtual hosting, the server relies 
on the client to report the hostname as part of the HTTP headers. Using this 
technique, many different hosts can share the same IP address.

Name-based virtual hosting is usually simpler, since you need only configure 
your DNS server to map each hostname to the correct IP address and then configure
 the Apache HTTP Server to recognize the different hostnames. Name-based virtual 
hosting also eases the demand for scarce IP addresses. Therefore you should use 
name-based virtual hosting unless there is a specific reason to choose IP-based virtual
 hosting. Some reasons why you might consider using IP-based virtual hosting:
...
    * Name-based virtual hosting cannot be used with SSL secure servers because of 
the nature of the SSL protocol.
...

That's answers onto your question I suppose )