multiple virtual hosts on EC2 ubuntu - cannot access second host, always accesses default

Question

I have been searching and reconfiguring for 6 days now and have lost several clumps of hair.

PROBLEM:

I want 2+ virtual hosts on my ubuntu server (1 ip) BUT - Only the first "alphabetically" listed sites-enabled shows. 000-default
www.domain1.com
www.domain2.com

Individually they all work (if i a2dissite for each leaving 1)

CONFIG: - UBUNTU 10.10 Server - EC2 instance (dont shoot me for this part - hoping this isnt the issue!) - APACHE 2.2.16 - DNS my.domain.com - to my public ec2 dns (this works)

Virtual Hosts: # default

<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot "/home/www/"
        <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Satisfy all
        </Directory>
        <Directory /home/www>
        Options Indexes Multiviews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        </Directory>
        LogLevel debug
        ErrorLog /home/www/logs/error.log
        CustomLog /home/www/logs/access.log "combined"
</VirtualHost>

Virtual Host 1 - domain1

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@domain1.com
        ServerName domain1.com
        ServerAlias domain1.com www.domain1.com
        # Indexes + Directory Root.
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        DocumentRoot "/home/www/www.domain1.com/"
        # Directory directive
        <Directory "/home/www/www.domain1.com">
                Options Indexes Multiviews FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride none
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
        # CGI Directory
        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/www/www.domain1.com/cgi-bin
        <Location /cgi-bin>
                Options +ExecCGI
        </Location>
        # Logfiles
        LogLevel debug
        ErrorLog "/home/www/www.domain1.com/logs/error.log"
        CustomLog "/home/www/www.domain1.com/logs/access.log" combined
</VirtualHost>

I also have the above for domain2 in another document root with a different domain name

sym links are in place. apache2ctl -St shows the following -

VirtualHost configuration:
*:80       is a NameVirtualHost
         default server  (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:4)
         port 80 namevhost  (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:4)
         port 80 namevhost domain1.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.domain1.com:4)
         port 80 namevhost www.domain2.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.domain2.com:4)
Syntax OK

My ports.conf:

NameVirtualHost *:80
Listen 80

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    NameVirtualHost *.443
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_gnutls.c>
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

No changes from default to my apache2.conf and httpd.conf is empty.

I have tried the following (and about a hundred others):

It seems I have tried everything that everyone else is having issues with but nothing seems to fix mine.

Possibilities:

EC2
Permissions on the files - I changed everything to the apache2 user "www-data" - no dice.
I am a dope...lets hope its that and one of you kind people point me to my issue. :)

stoned · Answer 1 · 2013-12-14T12:47:59.437

Speaking about virtualhosts, we had the same problem for a project of ours. The Apache's "ServerName" directive isn't optional, it's mandatory to use. Apache has no such thing as a "default" virtualhost to load when it has no ServerName match. And if virtualhost servernames overlap, well, that's just going to give you problems. In the end in those cases Apache just decides what to do depending on its configuration files loading order. And if you try to contact the server through an unspecified address (ip address, or something not mapped on the virtualhost) it will load the first virtualhost he got a configuration loaded for that address. The correct way to do it all is to have virtualhosts detailing all of the possible servernames in ServerName and ServerAlias directive. See name based virtual hosting on apache, and consider carefully the evidenced note "Main host goes away".

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 20 '11 at 09:30

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Is it possible that your ports.conf is failing due to the period used instead of colon?

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    NameVirtualHost *.443
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

Note the **.443* should be **:443* above.

answered May 20 '11 at 09:30

Matt Beckman

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Also, put a "ServerName" directive in the default host. It will still be the default as it is the first one loaded. – Frands Hansen May 20 '11 at 11:37
what server name should I use? – user762313 May 20 '11 at 12:40
Fixed the : . issue, didnt fix anything tho. Cheers anyway. – user762313 May 20 '11 at 12:41
@FrandsHansen I'm interested to know why you suggest putting ServerName in the default host? It might help with debugging but I would have thought setting it in the virtuals would be fine. – ianjs Jun 10 '13 at 03:52

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered May 20 '11 at 12:10

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Just guessing. Looking on result of apache2ctl -St, you have difference in output :

port 80 namevhost domain1.com 
port 80 namevhost www.domain2.com

Maybe you should also set domain2.com as ServerName (without "www" prefix)

answered May 20 '11 at 12:10

Ruslan

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nope, fixed that piece but no dice. Thanks for taking the time anyway. – user762313 May 20 '11 at 12:40
Looks like it might be DNS related. Trying a fix now...lets see what happens when the caches clear themselves! – user762313 May 20 '11 at 14:33

multiple virtual hosts on EC2 ubuntu - cannot access second host, always accesses default

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