Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up a name-based virtual host in Apache

[Daniel Iliev]

Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I hope this email gets to the list.  My last post didn't.  This is
> semi-urgent.  Over the past year I've been developing a PHP-based web
> interface for my college's music festival.  This web interface would
> allow participating directors to enter all their information via the
> Internet, rather than having to send it to us and having us do all the
> work.  The interface is now ready for widespread use (as opposed to the
> handful of directors I've had testing it and returning feedback.)  The
> problem is this:  The web address of the interface is
> http://camille.espersunited.com/~festival .  I want to them to be able
> to use http://festival.espersunited.com because it's easier to remember
> (some of them don't remember that they have bookmarks.)  I created a
> file in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d for this:
>
> camille vhosts.d # cat 01_festival_vhost.conf
> <VirtualHost *>
>    ServerName festival.espersunited.com
>    DocumentRoot /home/festival/webspace/html
>    <Directory /home/festival/webspace/html>
>       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>       Order allow,deny
>       Allow from all
>    </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> >From the information I can find for what I'm trying to do, this seems to
> be the correct syntax.  I set up a CNAME record in my espersunited.com
> DNS configuration to point festival.espersunited.com at
> camille.espersunited.com .  However, when I reloaded apache2 and went to
> http://festival.espersunited.com, instead of seeing the interface
> at /home/festival/webspace/html/index.php, I
> saw /var/www/localhost/htdocs/index.html .  Is something wrong with my
> config?  Please help!
> -Michael Sullivan-
>
>
>


Try to give "festival" an address, not a CNAME and please, send the
output of "apachectl configtest"

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Best regards,
Daniel


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