[Techtalk] Hosting multiple websites from one user on Apache

[Amber]

----- Original Message -----
From: <leslie at freakybutt.net>
To: Amber <delirium at javanet.com>
Cc: techtalk <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Hosting multiple websites from one user on Apache


>
>
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Amber wrote:
>
> > Hey all, I have been poking around with this for a few days now, and
> > haven't gotten it to work quite right yet. Does anyone know what has to
> > be done in httpd.conf to get more than one site hosting off of a users
> > directory? I am setting the document root as just another folder in my
> > home directory, but that doesn't work. Is there a specific way I have to
> > reference it? Or a specific location it has to be in? Would appreciate
> > any suggestions.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Amber
> >
>
> Are you pulling up the same website for all of the hosts? If so it sounds
> like is that you do not have NamVirtualHost specified in your
> httpd.conf. If you do not have NameVirtualHost while hosting websites on
> the same IP address when pulling up a website on that IP address apache
> will pull up the first VirtualHost in the httpd.conf that pertains to that
> IP Address.
>
> Here is a portion of my httpd.conf that should help you with your problem
>
> <snip>
>
> ### Section 3: Virtual Hosts
> #
> # VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
> # machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most
configurations
> # use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry
about
> # IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives
below.
> #
> # Please see the documentation at <URL:http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/>
> # for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
> #
> # You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
> # configuration.
>
> #
> # Use name-based virtual hosting.
> #
> NameVirtualHost *
> NameVirtualHost *:443
>
> </snip>
>
> What the NameVirtualHost does is listen on a certain IP address or IP
> address and port. The first NameVirtualHost * tells apache to listen on
> all IP's if you just want it to listen on a specific IP you can replace
> the asterisk for the IP address. The second line NameVirtualHost *:443
> tells apache to listen on all IP addresses on the port 443. I use this for
> SSL.
>
> Hope this helps you out, if not just let me know and I'll see what else I
> can do. :)
>
> - Leslie
>
>