Question

first time poster, but please help. I have been searching and reconfiguring for 6 days now and have lost several clumps of hair..

PROBLEM:
I want 2+ virtual hosts on my ubuntu server (1 ip)
BUT – Only the first “alphabetically” listed sites-enabled shows.
000-default
http://www.domain1.com
http://www.domain2.com

Individually they all work (if i a2dissite for each leaving 1)

CONFIG:
UBUNTU 10.10 Server
EC2 instance (dont shoot me for this part – hoping this isnt the issue!)
APACHE 2.2.16
DNS my.domain.com
– to my public ec2 dns (this works)

Virtual Hosts:

default

<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot "/home/www/"
        <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Satisfy all
        </Directory>
        <Directory /home/www>
        Options Indexes Multiviews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        </Directory>
        LogLevel debug
        ErrorLog /home/www/logs/error.log
        CustomLog /home/www/logs/access.log "combined"
</VirtualHost>

Virtual Host 1 – domain1

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin [e-mail]
        ServerName domain1.com
        ServerAlias domain1.com www.domain1.com
        # Indexes + Directory Root.
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        DocumentRoot "/home/www/www.domain1.com/"
        # Directory directive
        <Directory "/home/www/www.domain1.com">
                Options Indexes Multiviews FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride none
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
        # CGI Directory
        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/www/www.domain1.com/cgi-bin
        <Location /cgi-bin>
                Options +ExecCGI
        </Location>
        # Logfiles
        LogLevel debug
        ErrorLog "/home/www/www.domain1.com/logs/error.log"
        CustomLog "/home/www/www.domain1.com/logs/access.log" combined
</VirtualHost>

I also have the above for domain2 in another document root with a different domain name

sym links are in place:
my apache2ctl -St shows the following –
VirtualHost configuration:

*:80       is a NameVirtualHost
         default server  (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:4)
         port 80 namevhost  (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:4)
         port 80 namevhost domain1.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.domain1.com:4)
         port 80 namevhost www.domain2.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.domain2.com:4)
Syntax OK

My ports.conf:
NameVirtualHost *:80
Listen 80

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    NameVirtualHost *.443
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_gnutls.c>
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

No changes from default to my apache2.conf and httpd.conf is empty.

I have tried the following (and about a hundred others):

[URL=”http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/01/09/setting-up-name-based-virtual-hosting/”%5D%5B/URL%5D
[URL=”http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/vhosts.html”]http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/vhosts.html[/URL]
[URL=”http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1466665.html”]http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1466665.html[/URL]
[URL=”http://flurdy.com/docs/ec2/basics/index.html”]http://flurdy.com/docs/ec2/basics/index.html[/URL]
[URL=”http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3282118.htm”]http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3282118.htm[/URL]

it seems i have tried everything that everyone else is having issues with but nothing seems to fix mine.

Possibilities:
1) EC2
2) Permissions on the files – I changed everything to the apache2 user “www-data” – no dice.
3) I am a dope…lets hope its that and one of you kind people point me to my issue. 🙂

Chat soon…ill be over here losing my hair.
Regards, Logansanoh

Answer 1

DNS was the culprit.
Everything was being passed as expected in both EC2, Ubuntu and Apache. The problem was I was using URL redirect at the DNS. This is stoopid! It was so simple, I set up an ANAME instead using my public IP address for the alias (www.domain1.com) and the same for the (www.domain2.com) and it all worked perfectly.
Now if i could only get TOMCAT to behave with mod_proxy i will be 100% there!!