Apache vhosts not working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

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I'm trying to set up vhosts on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) using Apache, but it's seemingly not working.

Output of apachectl -S:

AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 162.210.36.172. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
VirtualHost configuration:
162.210.36.172:80      xyz.voksul.net (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/xyz.voksul.net.conf:1)
ServerRoot: "/etc/apache2"
Main DocumentRoot: "/var/www"
Main ErrorLog: "/var/log/apache2/error.log"
Mutex default: dir="/var/lock/apache2" mechanism=fcntl
Mutex mpm-accept: using_defaults
Mutex watchdog-callback: using_defaults
PidFile: "/var/run/apache2/apache2.pid"
Define: DUMP_VHOSTS
Define: DUMP_RUN_CFG
User: name="www-data" id=33
Group: name="www-data" id=33

The specific vhost file:

<VirtualHost 162.210.36.172:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com

ServerAdmin xyz@voksul.net
DocumentRoot /var/www/public_html/server
ServerName xyz.voksul.net
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/public_html/server>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>


# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>

It's loading up /var/www instead of the defined document root for the vhost — VoidWhisperer, Aug 20 '14 at 17:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 20 '14 at 17:37

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It seems that Apache is loading your default configuration. This might be because you've defined the virtual host in /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-site.conf but have forgot to symlink it to the sites-enabled folder.

Something like sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-site.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ should do the trick .

answered Aug 20 '14 at 17:37

FaCE

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That did not fix it. :/ I'm also sure it's symlinked correctly. – VoidWhisperer Aug 20 '14 at 17:41
It looks like your domain uses cloudflare. Have you tried testing with this disabled? – FaCE Aug 20 '14 at 17:49
Yes, I don't route the subdomain that i'm trying to get this to work for through cloudflare.. Does Cloudflare's DNS cause issues with vhosts or something? – VoidWhisperer Aug 20 '14 at 17:50
Possibly [link](https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168616-Why-isn-t-the-direct-subdomain-working-) – FaCE Aug 20 '14 at 17:55
That doesn't help very much. – VoidWhisperer Aug 20 '14 at 18:33
Try globbing onto *:80 rather than an IP address, is what I read from that – FaCE Aug 20 '14 at 18:44
I was doing that before - that didn't help. – VoidWhisperer Aug 20 '14 at 18:44
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/16568/discussion-between-face-and-voidwhisperer). – FaCE Aug 20 '14 at 18:46

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 09 '15 at 08:41

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Does DNS correctly resolve the name to the IP address where Apache is running?

This guide maybe can help you further on configurations. You can use the a2ensite apache utility to activate the virtual hosts from site-available to sites-enabled, without the need to manually symlink the vhost.conf file.

edited Feb 09 '15 at 08:41

Andrew Schulman

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answered Feb 09 '15 at 08:34

bytelinux com

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 30 '15 at 17:50

It looks like you've done this, but I wanted to make sure that the relevent vhost config files have the .conf suffix. Apache 2.4 (at least as configured on Ubuntu 14.04) only loads config files ending in .conf

On my config, it seemed that renaming the symlinks in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ wasn't sufficient; I had to also rename the files in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ and update my symlinks.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 19 '16 at 04:08

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In many cases the problem is related to the naming of default configuration file. Try to change the name from 000-default.conf to default.conf and add your vhost in a new configuration file. Greetings

answered Dec 19 '16 at 04:08

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Apache vhosts not working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

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