How to make this apache virtualhost working in Ubuntu?
According to the docs https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/httpd.html i have done following, and that is almost how i do always in my Fedora, but Ubuntu looks like its not working.
a) DNS to IP
$ echo "127.0.0.1 a" > /etc/hosts
$ echo "127.0.0.1 b" > /etc/hosts
b) Apache virtualhost
$ ls
1 2 default default.backup default-ssl
$ cat 1
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName a
ServerAlias a
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/a/public
<Directory /var/www/html/a/public>
#AddDefaultCharset utf-8
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
$ cat 2
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName b
ServerAlias b
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/b/public
<Directory /var/www/html/b/public>
#AddDefaultCharset utf-8
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
c) load into Apache and restart the service
$ a2ensite 1
$ a2ensite 2
$ a2dissite default
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
d) Browse the new 2 hosts
$ firefox http://a
Does not work it goes always with `http://a` or `http://b` to `/var/www/html`
How do i fix it so that it goes to its own directory e.g: `http://a` goes to `/var/www/html/a/public` not `/var/www/html`?
a) DNS to IP
$ echo "127.0.0.1 a" > /etc/hosts
$ echo "127.0.0.1 b" > /etc/hosts
b) Apache virtualhost
$ ls
1 2 default default.backup default-ssl
$ cat 1
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName a
ServerAlias a
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/a/public
<Directory /var/www/html/a/public>
#AddDefaultCharset utf-8
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
$ cat 2
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName b
ServerAlias b
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/b/public
<Directory /var/www/html/b/public>
#AddDefaultCharset utf-8
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
c) load into Apache and restart the service
$ a2ensite 1
$ a2ensite 2
$ a2dissite default
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
d) Browse the new 2 hosts
$ firefox http://a
Does not work it goes always with `http://a` or `http://b` to `/var/www/html`
How do i fix it so that it goes to its own directory e.g: `http://a` goes to `/var/www/html/a/public` not `/var/www/html`?
Dave Baldwin
Interesting question. I tried it a slightly different way using the GUI on Ubuntu 8.04 but it did the same thing. I think it should work but I haven't figured out how.
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> $ echo "127.0.0.1 a" > /etc/hosts
> $ echo "127.0.0.1 b" > /etc/hosts
ends up with a /etc/hosts containing (only):
127.0.0.1 b
maybe you need to rethink about generating your /etc/hosts ;-)
> $ echo "127.0.0.1 b" > /etc/hosts
ends up with a /etc/hosts containing (only):
127.0.0.1 b
maybe you need to rethink about generating your /etc/hosts ;-)
Thanks for the points. Note that when you do it that way, you can add it to the hosts file on any computer in your network and access it by name.