HPR1206: Resolving Issues (The Vhost Config File)

Summary: Windigo helps NYbill as he trys to set up mutiple servers on his VPS by explaining the stucture of the vhost file. NameVirtualHost *:80 #this first virtualhost enables: http://127.0.0.1, or: http://localhost, #to still go to /srv/http/*index.html(otherwise it will 404_error). #the reason for this: once you tell httpd.conf to include extra/httpd-vhosts.conf, #ALL vhosts are handled in httpd-vhosts.conf(including the default one), # E.G. the default virtualhost in httpd.conf is not used and must be included here, #otherwise, only domainname1.dom & domainname2.dom will be accessible #from your web browser and NOT http://127.0.0.1, or: http://localhost, etc. # DocumentRoot "/srv/http" ServerAdmin root@localhost ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/127.0.0.1-error_log" CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/127.0.0.1-access_log" common DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl Options ExecCGI Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all ServerAdmin your@domainname1.dom DocumentRoot "/home/username/yoursites/domainname1.dom/www" ServerName domainname1.dom ServerAlias domainname1.dom DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl Options ExecCGI Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all ServerAdmin your@domainname2.dom DocumentRoot "/home/username/yoursites/domainname2.dom/www" ServerName domainname2.dom ServerAlias domainname2.dom DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl Options ExecCGI Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all