Using Multiple Domains On Same Server Using The Same IP

[Byroman]

Hello All,
Im quite the noob, and im trying to build my own server to host some websites of mine (to avoid the cost of hosting). I have Apache and MySQL sucessfully installed on my machine (Running Fedora Core 4), and I have one domain sucessfully running. But im trying to host multiple websites (4 to be exact) all with different domains. I have a dynamic IP adress and I use DynDNS, so I need to do this using the same IP adress. I read this article and folowed all the steps exactly, but it did'nt work. Could any one walk me through how to do this, or point me to another article that should work better for me?
Thanks alot,
Byroman
:drown:

[Byroman]

Any body have any ideas on how to do this? I really need to get this working.
Any help would b greatly apreciated.
Byroman

[jledhead]

so how do you have it setup.

# Virtual host Virtual Host 1

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/folder1
ServerAdmin webmaster@bigfeet.org

ServerName www.fake.com

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html index.htm index.shtml

ErrorDocument 404 "http://bigfeet.org/missing.html"

</VirtualHost>

# Virtual host Virtual Host 2

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/folder2

ServerAdmin webmaster@smellycarpet.com

ServerName www.fake2.com

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html index.htm index.shtml

ErrorDocument 404 "http://smellycarpet.com/missing.html"

</VirtualHost>


does your ip match whats listed in your conf file and do the different folders exist like above with matching web urls?

also, do you have your private ip (ie 192.....) or your public ip listed in the conf file

[Byroman]

Thanks for the reply.
Heres what the virtualhost part of my conf file look like:

#
# Virtual hosts
#

# Virtual host byroman.homelinux.org
<VirtualHost *>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml
LogLevel debug
HostNameLookups off
</VirtualHost>
# Virtual host byroman.homelinux.com
<VirtualHost byroman.homelinux.com>
DocumentRoot /home/byroman/Websites/byroman.homelinux.com
ServerAdmin byroman@gmail.com
ServerName byroman.homelinux.com
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html index.htm index.shtml
</VirtualHost>

Is this right? The two domains are byroman.homelinux.org and byroman.homelinux.com. (This is just temporary untill i get this working and Im ready to use my real domains). Both are free domains from DynDNS. I use DynDNS since I have a dynamic IP adress and I dont have a static IP adress. When I go to byroman.homelinux.org, it works, but byroman.homelinux.com will not.
Any help would be greatly apreciated.
Thanks a lot,
Byroman

[jledhead]

from your linked article above (and from how I have set it up before) it should look similar to this

NameVirtualHost 12.34.56.78

# Virtual host Virtual Host 1

<VirtualHost 12.34.56.78>

DocumentRoot /home/byroman/Websites/byroman.homelinux.org

ServerAdmin webmaster@bigfeet.org

ServerName byroman.homelinux.org

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html index.htm index.shtml

ErrorDocument 404 "http://bigfeet.org/missing.html"

</VirtualHost>

# Virtual host Virtual Host 2

<VirtualHost 12.34.56.78>

DocumentRoot /home/byroman/Websites/byroman.homelinux.com

ServerAdmin webmaster@smellycarpet.com

ServerName byroman.homelinux.com

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html index.htm index.shtml

ErrorDocument 404 "http://smellycarpet.com/missing.html"

</VirtualHost>

and where you see 12.34.56.78 you could try and use the machine ip or just *

here is a better article on the setup
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/vhosts/name-based.html

[Byroman]

Hello,
Thanks for the reply. Ive replaced the virtual host section with what you posted and edited the fields that needed to be. But now what I go to start the httpd process, I get this error message:

Starting httpd: (99)Cannot assign requested address: make_sock: could not bind to address 72.57.170.113:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
                                                           [FAILED]

Any ideas about this? At the end of your post, you said to replace the IP adress with the machine IP. By this do you mean my public IP or the non-routable IP of my machine?
Thanks a lot,
Byroman

[Byroman]

Also,
I tried replacing the IP adress with a *, and when i did that and tried starting httpd, i got this error:

Starting httpd: [Sat Apr 01 20:32:00 2006] [warn] NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.104:0 has no VirtualHosts
(99)Cannot assign requested address: make_sock: could not bind to address 72.57.170.113:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
                                                           [FAILED]

Thanks for the help,
Byroman

[Byroman]

Any ideas? Now Apache is not working at all, so I really need to get this woring again.
Thanks a lot,
Byroman

[KidCloudWala]

Greetings,

I would suggest you to comment everything and first check whether the Apache works with the default configuration and check which is the default website it is reffering to. As, what I think, the problem is with the IP Address being changed and the apache is not able to keep track of it.

Also, you can replace the IP Address with * if you have specified any IP Address for the Listen Directive. Maybe you need to install a DynDNS client. In order to do so please refer to the following link:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w..._:_Dynamic_DNS

I wud suggest u to start from the scratch and perform the things step by step instead of doing all the configuration together.

Also, check whether the port 80 or the port at which apache is running is accessible or not.

Regards

[Byroman]

Hello!
Thanks for the reply. I will start from scratch some time tonight, and will update you on what happens.