HTTPD.conf question

[Michael Shaw]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 13:15, Michael Shaw wrote:
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>>Scot L. Harris wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 13:08, Michael Shaw wrote:
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>>>>I also put entries for default and michael after 192.168.1.25 in my 
>>>>hosts file.  However, when I eneter either default or michael in my Web 
>>>>browser I get eh FC4 test page, even though I have a <h1>Hello 
>>>>World</h1> index.html file in /home/michael/public_html/www.
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>>>>What am I missing?
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>>>Did you restart httpd?
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>>>service httpd restart
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>>Thanks.  I thought the GUI tool did that, for whatever reason.  Now I 
>>get a 403 error on server Michael. 
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>Check the permissions on the /home/michael/public_html/www directory and
>the path to it.  
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>You are using the same IP address for both servers.  In IP based virtual
>hosting I think you should be using different IP addresses.
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>If you are trying to do named based virtual hosts then you probably want
>something along the lines of:
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># Virtual host default
><VirtualHost www.default.com>
>     ServerName www.default.com
>    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml
>    LogLevel debug
>     HostNameLookups off
></VirtualHost>
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># Virtual host michael
><VirtualHost www.michael.com>
>     DocumentRoot /home/michael/public_html/www
>     ServerAdmin mshaw at dowco.com
>     ServerName www.michael.com
>    DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml
></VirtualHost>
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>Then have things setup in your /etc/hosts files or DNS for those names
>pointing to the same IP address.
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>This allows you to use one IP address for all the sites.  They get
>directed to the correct document root based on the name used in the
>browser.
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That's something along the lines of what I wound up doing.  I'm using a 
hosts file for now, until I learn how to configure bind.

FC4's configuration tool configures name-based virtual hosts with IP's 
in their <VirtualHost > tags.  I've removed this and set it up as you 
suggest

Thanks
Michael