Hi there, I'm running a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on Digitalocean. It's a fresh installed and I have tried re-imaging a couple of times to rule out any server issues.
So basically, I have set up a virtual server "techsite.cf" in Virtualmin. DNS records are handled by Digitalocean and I have forwarded both "techsite.cf" and "www.techsite.cf" to my site's IP address.
Now, the issue is that "www.techsite.cf" points correctly to /home/techsite/public_html, whereas techsite.cf points to /var/www/html instead. It seems that the former is following the correct VirtualHost file whereas the latter is following the "000-default.conf" VirtualHost file instead.
I am intrigued as to what could be wrong. When I unlink the 000-default.conf file, it seems to work fine, but shouldn't the non-www and www work out of the box?
Here is 000-default.conf and techsite.cf.conf respectively:
<VirtualHost *: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 webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/html # 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> # vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet
<VirtualHost *:80> SuexecUserGroup "#1000" "#1000" ServerName techsite.cf ServerAlias www.techsite.cf ServerAlias webmail.techsite.cf ServerAlias admin.techsite.cf DocumentRoot /home/techsite/public_html ErrorLog /var/log/virtualmin/techsite.cf_error_log CustomLog /var/log/virtualmin/techsite.cf_access_log combined ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/techsite/cgi-bin/ ScriptAlias /awstats/ /home/techsite/cgi-bin/ DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5 <Directory /home/techsite/public_html> Options -Indexes +IncludesNOEXEC +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +ExecCGI allow from all AllowOverride All Options=ExecCGI,Includes,IncludesNOEXEC,Indexes,MultiViews,SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Require all granted AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddHandler fcgid-script .php AddHandler fcgid-script .php5 FCGIWrapper /home/techsite/fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi .php FCGIWrapper /home/techsite/fcgi-bin/php5.fcgi .php5 </Directory> <Directory /home/techsite/cgi-bin> allow from all AllowOverride All Options=ExecCGI,Includes,IncludesNOEXEC,Indexes,MultiViews,SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Require all granted </Directory> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =webmail.techsite.cf RewriteRule ^(.*) https://techsite.cf:20000/ [R] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =admin.techsite.cf RewriteRule ^(.*) https://techsite.cf:10000/ [R] RemoveHandler .php RemoveHandler .php5 php_admin_value engine Off IPCCommTimeout 31 FcgidMaxRequestLen 1073741824 <Files awstats.pl> AuthName "techsite.cf statistics" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /home/techsite/.awstats-htpasswd require valid-user </Files> </VirtualHost>
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I did some more troubleshooting, and apparently non-www for my root site seems to be headed straight to 000-default.conf unless I set www.techsite.cf.
Now, since my domain is a free one, I decided to get another domain to test and see. Apparently, if I add the second domain, it works just fine without the www., and the 000-default.conf still acts as a catchall otherwise, which is my intended behaviour.
So, I'm guessing that Apache doesn't play nice when the hostname matches exactly with the non-www name? :/
Hi there, I did even more testing and confirmed my hypothesis.
Under Webmin, if my hostname is 'domain1.com', then domain1.com will redirect to the Apache2 page and 'www.domain1.com', 'domain2.com' and 'www.domain2.com' works fine.
If my hostname is 'www.domain1.com', then www.domain1.com will redirect to the Apache2 page and the rest will work.
If my hostname is 'domain2.com', then domain2.com will redirect to the Apache2 page and the rest will work.
If my hostname is 'www.domain2.com', then www.domain2.com will redirect to the Apache2 page and the rest will work.
Now, my question is: Why will my hostname redirect to the Apache2 page if I leave 000-default.conf there?
Thank you!
Having similar problem
If I create more virtual servers there isnt any problems
The only problem is with the virtual server that is created with the server hostname
hostname = example.com new virtual server = example.com That equals pointing to var/www/html
Ive been looking like crazy someone out there that knows the answer
Thanks
Howdy,
It's actually safe to remove the 000-default.conf file/VirtualHost if that's causing problems. It sounds like it is in this case :-)
Once you remove that, and restart Apache, do things work as expected at that point?
-Eric
@andreycheck
Why didnt I think I that
That solved my problem, perfect thank so much
Yes, indeed that was the case and removing it does solve the problem.
However, I am curious as to why is there such an issue in the first place? Does the problem lie with Apache or Virtualmin's configuration of Apache?
Thank you.
Thank you @andreychek
I went through a lot of pain until reading your answer!! :)
Virtualmin, if using virtual servers, should have this covered by deafult i guess!
Thanks once again!
Cheers
Just had to do this today on Debian 8 and Ubuntu 14.04 fresh setups.
What gives? Another system which I installed a few weeks ago with Ubuntu 14.04 did not have the problem.
Is it hostname related in someway when we first setup the servers??
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