Comments on: Setting Up Name Based Virtual Hosting

By: Marcin

Marcin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:25:44 +0000

This post is old but still very helpful. I’ve followed it to setup vhosts on our server and it worked like a charm thanks!

By: JJA

JJA — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:10:09 +0000

So I get to the part where I need to restart apache and it tells me:

apache2: syntax error on line 230 of /etc/apahce2/apahce2.conf: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/test2: No such file or directory Action ‘configtest’ failed.

When I look in the sites-enabled folder it shows test2 as a link though. However, when I use terminal to look the 000-default file is in blue text but my test2 file is in red text with a dark gray background.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

By: eremiya

eremiya — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:02:13 +0000

Great stuff!! Thanks a lot!

By: Matt W

Matt W — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:30:39 +0000

@Eelco
What file do i write this….sorry i’m a bit of a newb but i’ve got pretty far by myself.

heres another question too..is it possible to set all this up on a dynamic ip?

By: NIDHI

NIDHI — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:02:37 +0000

plz plz plz help me out……………… there was some problem like this—->

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Apache/2.2.17 (Ubuntu) Server at netorbis.com Port 80

———->>
———>> but when i delete the .htaccess file frome public folder then it takes the change url but not include index.php……..plz help as soon as

By: Ronny Stalker

Ronny Stalker — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:05:08 +0000

@airborne Have you seen the comment by John Lusth, sounds like you have the same issue which he fixed:

John Lusth : Found my problem. I had ServerAlias rra.cs.ua.edu It needs to be ServerAlias http://rra.cs.ua.edu

By: tonytan.hs

tonytan.hs — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:44:37 +0000

Great tutorial! I’m a newbie to apache but manage to setup virtual host by following your tutorial. Can you teach me how to setup virtual host for SSL as well? Thanks!

By: airborne

airborne — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:50:58 +0000

ok… i made it past the WWW directory. i had a type-o in one of the domain files example1.com.

but now that i fixed it, when i goto example1.com or example2.com, they both load example1.com’s index.html file.

any idea as to why ?

By: airborne

airborne — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:32:13 +0000

great tutorial. im a noob with all of this and i have followed several different tutorials. all have failed me.

im still having a problem though. i have 2 different domain names, example1.com and example2.com.

when i goto either, it takes me to the root of the WWW directory /var/www/
and from there i can click through the 2 different domains.

another thing im not sure about is in the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

the part of “NameVirtualHost ip.address:port”

is that supposed to be the IP address of my web server, my router, my external WAN IP?
please let me know.

thanks in advance

By: randy blacklove

randy blacklove — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:42:56 +0000

thanks man! worked perfectly…