Bdtyktl

We have a new Centos server installed with Apache 2.4.9. I'm trying to get the vhost working. DNS resolves to the right machine, and I can see the default Apache page, so it's not a firewall issue and Apache runs.

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Include conf.d/*.conf

/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *>

    ServerName www.abctest.com

    DocumentRoot /websites/abctest.com/htdocs    

    <Directory /websites/abctest.com/htdocs/public>

            AllowOverride All

    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

ls /etc/httpd/modules

modules/mod_vhost_alias.so

website

In /websites/abctest.com/htdocs is an index.php file with helloworld in it. After restarting httpd, I still get the Apache page, not the helloworld text.

How can I get this working?

Try putting a specific ip and port in each of your VirtualHost blocks. So put:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>

Your VirtualHost configuration indicates that apache accepts request from any of the interfaces in the host but it should have a Host: www.abctest.com header to select DocumentRoot as /websites/abctest.com/htdocs. Generally any other Host header will cause apache to use the default VirtualHost to be used.

In case if you are trying to open the webpage with http://localhost then you would end up getting pages from default DocumentRoot.

You can check this out more easily with curl command.

curl -L 'http://www.abctest.com'

And also make sure that you have a IP to host mapping for www.abctest.com in /etc/hosts file some thing as below.

127.0.0.1   www.abctest.com www

A couple of items to check:

Make sure you do not have other VirtualHost entries that may be getting called afterwards.

Typically the * entry in VirtualHosts is used for requests without a ServerName so, although I would have expected that to work, try changing the first line from:

<VirtualHost *>

to

<VirtualHost www.abctest.com:80>

(Assuming you are using the default port 80 for the host).

Those random items aside, take a look at your access_log and error_log. They may help you identify what path is being utilized to then locate within your .conf file to help narrow down the conflict/cause.

You need to enable name-based virtual hosting.

On my Centos box it's towards the bottom of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf as

# NameVirtualHost *:80

You need to remove the '#' symbol from the start of the line to enable it and then restart Apache.

Without the above, Apache is using IP based virtual host. As (I presume) the name of your host and of the virtual host resolve to the same IP address then the first one matched wins, which in your case is the Apache start page.