Question

I have several VirtalHosts set up on my computer. I’d like to visit the site I’m currently working on from a different PC using the my comp’s ip address, but every config i’ve tried keeps taking me to a different virtual host (in fact the first virtualhost I set up on my comp). How do I set up the apache virtualhost configs to ensure that the ip address takes me to the site I want it to.

/etc/apache2/sites-available/site-i-want-to-show-up-with-ip-address.conf contains:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

ServerAlias currentsite.com

DocumentRoot /path/to/root/of/site-i-want-to-show-up
ServerName localhost

ScriptAlias /awstats/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/current-site-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

And /etc/apache2/sites-available/site-that-keeps-showing-up.conf contains:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerAlias theothersite.com
    DocumentRoot /path/to/it
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

I’d appreciate anyone’s help.

Also, I don’t know too much about configuring web servers, and I used tutorials to get the above code.

Answer 1

Apache 2.x Virtual Hosts

1) You need this prior to your VirtualHosts sections:

# Ensure that Apache listens on port 80
Listen 80

# Listen for virtual host requests on all IP addresses
NameVirtualHost *:80

2) Each section needs a DocumentRoot and a ServerName item:

<VirtualHost 172.20.30.50>
DocumentRoot /www/example1
ServerName www.example1.com

# Other directives here ...

</VirtualHost>