virtual hosts are ignored (fc6)

I configured httpd.conf for use of virtual hosts:

uncommented NameVirtualHost *:80

created virtual hosts:

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/vundyn
ServerName vun.dynalias.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/lekkah
ServerName lekkah.com
</VirtualHost>

The only page ever getting displayed is the default one on localhost. This is on Fedora Core 6, Apache 2.2.

Before, I've had the same virtual hosts running perfectly well on Apache 1.3 on my Mac, but I want it to work on Linux too.

Of course, I've read what is written on this page: VirtualHost Examples - Apache HTTP Server.

Could something have gone wrong with the configuration of the Apache server? Will I have less problems using SUSE?

Any help would be welcome. Thanx in advance.

it seems like I have had this problem before but I can't remember exactly what the problem was.

Maybe permissions on the other virtual host directories?

Not sure if this would have any effect or not since it should work both ways but instead of using *:80 use the actual ip of the machine (as long as its not dhcp)

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Originally Posted by jledhead

it seems like I have had this problem before but I can't remember exactly what the problem was.

Maybe permissions on the other virtual host directories?

Not sure if this would have any effect or not since it should work both ways but instead of using *:80 use the actual ip of the machine (as long as its not dhcp)

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Thanks jledhead, but the permissions are set to allow others to access the files (read only), which is perfectly alright, I think. Since my IP address is dynamic I can only use *:80 with DynDns and ddclient as an IP updater. I mentioned the fact that everything is working well on the Mac not in order to promote Mac but in order to maintain that all this should be working ok on Linux too.

I still hope somebody can help me out here. This problem shouldn't exist, I think.

heres a dumb question, have you restarted apache since making the changes

is anything showing up in your error logs?

Yes, I restart httpd after every change, and no, no errors are being reported.

Everybody can check what's happening by visiting the following page, for example:

lekkah.com

If you don't get that page but the default page, you know I didn't manage to solve the virtual hosting problem yet.

What a headache!

maybe you could post your conf file so folks can take a look? Just from what you have shown I can't tell why its not working.

The main problem, I have figured out, is the fact that uncommenting the line

NameVirtualHost *:80

remains without effect. The default page for redirection should be the first virtual host in Section 3. For testing I made this the default redirection page:

/var/www/vhosts

Instead, visitors are sent to the default redirection page as specified as the DocumentRoot in section 2:

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

This means I cannot activate Virtual Hosts.

I have not been lazy and reinstalled Fedora Core 6 completely. After that, virtual hosts worked.

If I do not follow up on this post, it means virtual hosts kept on working after hundreds of updates.

Thanx for your attention.

OK, now this is what happened. Everthing worked, but after the new installation there was no server name in the HTTP Server Configuration (System => Administration => Server Settings => HTTP), so I put a name there.

The line All available addresses on port 80 had gone from the field below Available Addresses, so I added All available addresses on port 80.

After that, I got this message when I restarted httpd:

Starting httpd: (98 )Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98 )Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
[FAILED]

Httpd now refuses to start.

I thought I'd be smart and remove the name from the Server Name field, but then I get the message that field cannot be left blank.

Then I removed the line All available addresses on port 80. Result: I can start httpd now, but again only the default page will show up.

I am starting to believe that Linux is too difficult for ordinary people like myself.

What to do? Please, help.

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do this command
#ps aux | grep httpd

and see if there are any running apache process and kill them

then try to start apache and see what happens.