virtual hosts error/ NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

[JackintheBox]

I am a newbie to linux and in particular working with apache and server side software and have a problem configuring virtual hosts.

I added entries to the hosts file to reflect the virtual sites I want to run on the server


Following a college tutorial I opened /etc/apache2/sites-available and renamed the default file as default.old and created a document named default and inserted the following

NameVirtualHost 192.168.40.138

<VirtualHost 192.168.40.138>
*** ServerAdmin webmaster"site1.com
*** DocumentRoot /var/www/
*** ServerName 192.168.40.138
<Directory /var/www/>
*** *** Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews +Includes
*** *** AllowOverride None
*** *** Order allow,deny
*** *** XBitHack On
*** </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

##Entry for site1.com
<VirtualHost 192.168.40.138>
*** ServerAdmin webmaster"site1.com
*** DocumentRoot /var/www/site1.com
*** ServerName site1.com
</VirtualHost>

##Entry for site2.com
<VirtualHost 192.168.40.138>
*** ServerAdmin webmaster"site2.com
*** DocumentRoot /var/www/site2.com
*** ServerName site2.com
</VirtualHost>

The next step is to run apache2ctl graceful and after I do I get the error message of [Mon Jan 17 11:08:37 2011] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

Anyone got any suggestions, help would be appreciated.

For the purpose of posting with less than 15 posts I had to change *** ServerAdmin webmaster"site2.com and replace the @ with a " to be able to post.

[Irithori]

Add a :80 to NameVirtualHost and all the VirtualHosts.
aka:
NameVirtualHost 192.168.40.138:80
<VirtualHost 192.168.40.138:80>

Also, grep for conflicting NameVirtualHosts directives.

On a side note:
Is it intended, that the files of *all* sites are available via the first host?
Depending on the environment/use case this is a security hole.

[JackintheBox]

Add a :80 to NameVirtualHost and all the VirtualHosts.
aka:
NameVirtualHost 192.168.40.138:80
<VirtualHost 192.168.40.138:80>

Also, grep for conflicting NameVirtualHosts directives.

On a side note:
Is it intended, that the files of *all* sites are available via the first host?
Depending on the environment/use case this is a security hole.

Thanks for the reply, I followed your advice and added :80 to NameVirtualHost and all the VirtualHosts. After running apache2ctl graceful I am still getting the [Mon Jan 17 11:45:53 2011] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts.

It is a test, security isn't an issue at the moment to be honest I just want to learn how to set up and run a basic server then try more intensive things like security and monitoring server usage.

[Irithori]

Did you grep for conflicting NameVirtualHost ?

Another thing, the "***" indicate white spaces, not actually "***"?

[JackintheBox]

Did you grep for conflicting NameVirtualHost ?

Another thing, the "***" indicate white spaces, not actually "***"?

Yeah the *** represent blank spaces.

What is grep for conflicting NameVirtualHost ?

[Irithori]

cd /etc/apache2
grep -ri namevirtualhost *

[JackintheBox]

cd /etc/apache2
grep -ri namevirtualhost *

Do I run the command, grep -ri namevirtualhost * in the terminal after moving to the /etc/apache2 directory?

If so, I did that and nothing seemed to take place, and I had to press control and c to end the process.

[Irithori]

That grep will search all files for namevirtualhost recursively and case-insensitive.
And yes, change to /etc/apache2 before.

The grep should come back almost instantly, as the amount of files in that apache configdirectory is usually fairly small.