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I have a VPS, that I have configured to host multiple websites with name based hosting. It is all good while only using example.com, and www.example.com. It also works with example.net, but when I try example.net, it reverts to my default site configuration, which just shows my default (empty) index.html page.

Here's the default file:

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost



        DocumentRoot /var/www

        <Directory />

                Options FollowSymLinks

                AllowOverride None

        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/>

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride All

                Order allow,deny

                allow from all

        </Directory>



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

        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">

                AllowOverride None

                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

                Order allow,deny

                Allow from all

        </Directory>



        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log



        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

        # alert, emerg.

        LogLevel warn



        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined



    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"

    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">

        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

        AllowOverride None

        Order deny,allow

        Deny from all

        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128

    </Directory>



</VirtualHost>

Here's a configuration for the example.com site:

    <VirtualHost *:80>

     ServerAdmin admin@example.com

     ServerName example.com

     ServerAlias www.example.com

     DocumentRoot /srv/www/example.com/public_html/

     ErrorLog /srv/www/example.com/logs/error.log

     CustomLog /srv/www/example.com/logs/access.log combined

<Directory /srv/www/example.com/public_html/>

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny

allow from all

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

And here is the config for the example.net site:

<VirtualHost *:80>

     ServerAdmin admin@example.net

     ServerName example.net

     ServerAlias www.example.net

     DocumentRoot /srv/www/example.net/public_html/

     ErrorLog /srv/www/example.net/logs/error.log

     CustomLog /srv/www/example.net/logs/access.log combined

<Directory /srv/www/example.net/public_html/>

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny

allow from all

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Where could the problem be?

I believe, that there is something going wrong with the ServerAlias property.

Could it be because of the way the site's are built? Because example.com is a Joomla site, and example.net is a Zend Framework site. Just in case, I'll also insert the .htaccess files for example.net, since example.com has it's disabled:
example.net:

SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development



RewriteRule  ^(browse|config).*  - [L]

ErrorDocument 500 /error-docs/500.shtml

SetEnv CACHE_OFFSET 2678400





<FilesMatch ".(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">

Header set Expires "Fri, 25 Sep 2037 19:30:32 GMT"

Header unset ETag

FileETag None

</FilesMatch>



RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(adm|statistics) - [L]

RewriteRule ^/public/(.*)$ http://example.net/$1 [R]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Edit So that my question is ABSOLUTELY clear:
The problem is, that one site works with both www prefix as well as without it, and the second one does not. I would like to know how to enable the second site to work with www prefix as well.

Make sure that the order of precedence in configuration directives matches how Apache should handle the request - i.e. you won't have much luck if your directives load like this:

• example.com


• default/catch-all


• universal.lv

Doesn't matter whether they are declared in a single file or multiple files - so long as "universal.lv" is last, it will not be reached because the default/catch-all vhost will precede it.

I usually name my default/catch-all config "z-default.conf" (or, if you have a domain that starts with a "z", "zz" ... etc) for this reason, to ensure that it is processed only if no other vhost matches.

Try renaming accordingly.

Updated: So as not to confuse w/the _default_ VirtualHost directive

Using wildcard DNS to direct all requests to example.com to the server's IP (catches mis-keyed subdomains), Apache parses the following configuration files:

• 000-default.conf - VirtualHost _default_:80 / ServerName <hostname> - catch requests against the server's IP (can redirect to primary domain or simply block with the default Directory specified in conf.d/security)


• example.conf - VirtualHost *:80 / ServerName www.example.com
  


• example2.conf - VirtualHost *:80 / ServerName www.example2.com
  


• zzz-example.conf - VirtualHost *:80 / ServerName example.com / ServerAlias *.example.com - redirects to canonical www domain


• zzz-example2.conf - VirtualHost *:80 / ServerName example2.com / ServerAlias *.example2.com - redirects to canonical www domain

As documented, Apache selects the first matching VirtualHost (i.e. _default_:80) but this behavior is not desirable if you are using a wildcard in a ServerAlias directive.

I recommend you to read the Apache documentation on Virtual Hosts first.

An excellent example has been given on http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html:

NameVirtualHost *:80



<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName www.domain.tld

ServerAlias domain.tld *.domain.tld

DocumentRoot /www/domain

</VirtualHost>



<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName www.otherdomain.tld

DocumentRoot /www/otherdomain

</VirtualHost>

Note the NameVirtualHost part. Your error log (/var/log/apache2/error.log) should have warned you that you've made a possible mistake.

Note: after a change to the configuration file, Apache needs to be restarted.

you need to have NameVirtualHost enabled into httpd.conf - then you can define multiple virtual host on the same ip:port.

In my case it was because I copied the files and changed everything except ServerName was the same as my other, so the 2nd was redirecting to the first