VirtualHost on Lion navigates to wrong document root

Question

I'm struggling with getting Virtual Hosts running on my local Lion development machine.

Here's the scenario. I have Site-A.dev and Site-B.dev sitting in my User/computername/Sites folder, like this: User/computername/Sites/Site-A.com User/computername/Sites/Site-B.com

My /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file has the following entries:

#<VirtualHost *:80>
#       DocumentRoot /Users/computername/Sites/Site-A.com
#       ServerName project.Site-A.dev
#</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot /Users/computername/Sites/Site-B.com
        ServerName project.Site-B.dev
</VirtualHost>

And my etc/hosts file looks like:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

#127.0.0.1      project.Site-A.dev
127.0.0.1       project.Site-B.dev

Eventhough all instances of Site-A are commented out, every time I try http://project.Site-B.dev I get Site-A in the browser! What in the world is going on?

To make matters more confounding, when edit my /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file to look like this:

# Virtual hosts
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

I get a Server Not Found error!

If I leave it like:

# Virtual hosts
#Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Then all I get is Site-A

What am I missing?

Edit It should be noted that both sites are running PHP

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '12 at 21:17

After running httpd -S I discovered that the location of my httpd-vhosts.conf file had been moved to /private/etc/apache2/other/httpd-vhosts.conf.

Heres what the httpd -S reported:

[Tue Feb 07 12:51:37 2012] [warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using macshortname.local for ServerName
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server Site-A.com (/private/etc/apache2/other/httpd-vhosts.conf:17)
         port 80 namevhost Site-A.com (/private/etc/apache2/other/httpd-vhosts.conf:17)
         port 80 namevhost localhost (/private/etc/apache2/other/httpd-vhosts.conf:36)
Syntax OK

Once I discovered that I was editing the wrong httpd-vhosts.conf file I was able to fix the problem.

VirtualHost on Lion navigates to wrong document root

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