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Apache2 Adding virtual hosts not working

I have created a project in /var/www called sayers.com

This is the path of sayers index.html:

/var/www/sayers/html/index.html

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In the in the /etc/apache2/sites-available, I created this file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin admin@sayers.com
  ServerName sayers.com
  ServerAlias www.sayers.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www/sayers.com/html
  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

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And in the /ect/apache2/sites-available. I created this file:

VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin admin@sayers.com
  ServerName sayers.com
  ServerAlias www.sayers.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www/sayers.com/html
  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

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Then I rebooted my server.

It displays the Ubuntu 20.4/Apache2 ItWorks page just fine using: localhost

It displays my phpinfo.php just fine using: http://localhost/phpinfo.php

My /etc/host contains:

127.0.0.1       localhost

127.0.1.1       MjsServer5

127.0.0.1       sayers.com

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

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I executed an apache2 config test and received this:

$ apachectl configtest
AH00112: Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/sayers.com/html] does not exist
Syntax OK

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So that tells me why but how do I fix this ??

kenfcamp

does the directory path "/var/www/sayers.com/html/" exist?

Dave Baldwin

Did you create the directory "/var/www/sayers.com/html" ? Creating the 'virtual host' does not automatically do that.

Marthaj

ASKER

David - Hello again - it's been a long time.

You helped a great deal before when i worked on Ubuntu 18 but I can not find my notes from then - I believe it was along the same problem... sigh

Oops - it is /var/www/sayers/html.

I changed my conf files in both sites-available and sites enabled to reflect the proper location, rebooted and still no go.

Issued sudo apache2 configtest and it returned this:

sudo apache2ctl configtest
Syntax OK

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But when I enter this in my browser window: http://localhost/sayers.com

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

Marthaj

ASKER

So I tried this after doing the above in previous comment:

sudo a2ensite sayers.com
ERROR: Site sayers.com not properly enabled: /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/sayers.com.conf is a real file, not touching it

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I checked to see what file apache2 was using and this:

 -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="apache2.conf"

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Could this be the reason it acknowledge my web site ??

Marthaj

ASKER

I decided to create another web site - and same thing (but I made sure I had the directory name right)

I did a apache2 config test and it return syntax ok

I tried firefox instead of chrome - with same results:

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

I use localhost/testproject.com

I used 127.0.0.1/testproject.com

samething.

David Johnson, CD

did you chown the website folder and also change the permissions of the website folders?

cd youWebSiteFolder/
Recursively change group permissions of the folders and sub-folders to enable write permissions:
find . -type d -exec chmod -R 775 {} \;
Recursively change group permissions of the files and sub-files to enable write permissions:
find . -type f -exec chmod -R 664 {} \;

Marthaj

ASKER

David Johnson - Yep. Same results.

arnold

get a list of virtual host
you ran a config test relying on the include in httpd.conf to load the file?

ls -l /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
what do you see there?
is this site's file the only real file, while the others are links?

do you manage the server using cpanel, whm, etc. and this one you manually added?

Run
httpd -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="apache2.conf" -D DUMP_VHOSTS

Is the host of interest listed?

Marthaj

ASKER

Arnold - no, i do not use cpanel.

I completely remove sayers folders, config files etc and created a new one called 'testproject'.

I don't understand "you ran a config test relying on the include in httpd.conf to load the file?'
Same thing. I tried this and got this:

 httpd -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="apache2.conf"  -D DUMP_VHOSTS

Command 'httpd' not found, did you mean:

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This is what ls -l /etc/apache2/sites-enabled show:

marthaj@MjsServer:~$ ls -l /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1767 Aug  8 00:11 000-default.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  268 Aug  7 22:25 testproject.com.conf

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Maybe not entering the correct syntax in browser window ?? This is confusing.

This is what my 000-default.conf contains:

<VirtualHost *:80>


   ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
   DocumentRoot /var/www/html

   ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
   CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined


</VirtualHost>



<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin admin@testproject.com
  ServerName testproject.com
  ServerAlias www.testproject.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www/testproject.com/html
  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

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I know I can multiple virtual websites defined and it then becomes a matter of using the correct website name in browser window. I had something like this about 2 years ago that allowed me switch from one website to another but I think the 000-default,config also contained reference to symlink links. I say this because when I do this:

sudo a2ensite testproject.com
[sudo] password for marthaj: 
ERROR: Site testproject.com not properly enabled: /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/testproject.com.conf is a real file, not touching it

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arnold

Httpd is likely nonot in your path. The parameter is supposed to list the virtual hosts records.

Could you post the apache2.conf as well?

To work by adding. Conf files to the directory sites.. the bottom of apache2.conf needs to have an include *.conf

If you add an entry in the 000 file, does the site work?

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Marthaj

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I appreciated everyone's suggestions and help. Thank you all. It's been quite awhile since I have worked with Ubuntu and I honestly don't know what I did to make it work.