Apache and Default vhost

Help!,
i ahve been struggeling with this problem for hours now, and have
tried everything that i can find and think of!, i have a static ip and
go through a modum/router and i think that i have sucessfuly allowed
the ports to come through.
The problem:-
i have two vhosts, hoping that the first will be the default, when i
ran a Vhost-dump i got:-

VirtualHost configuration:
*.*.*.*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server www.MyDefaultServer.com
(/(somewhere)/httpd.conf:724)
port 80 namevhost www.MyDefaultServer.com
(/(somewhere)/httpd.conf:724)
port 80 namevhost www.MyPage.com
(/(somewhere)/httpd.conf:751)
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
_default_:443 new.host.name (/(somewhere)/ssl.conf:90)
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address
0.0.0.0:443
no listening sockets available, shutting down

Also, no matter what order i put the two hosts, when i call MyPage.com
it automaticaly goes to the index.html page, when i call the
MyDefaultServer.com page, it displays the index.html page of
MyPage.com, further more when i type in MyDefaultServer.com/index.html
it displays the right page!.
What could i be doing wrong?
Andrew

Andrew wrote:

> Help!,
> i ahve been struggeling with this problem for hours now, and have
> tried everything that i can find and think of!, i have a static ip and
> go through a modum/router and i think that i have sucessfuly allowed
> the ports to come through.
> The problem:-
> i have two vhosts, hoping that the first will be the default, when i
> ran a Vhost-dump i got:-
>
> VirtualHost configuration:
> *.*.*.*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
> default server www.MyDefaultServer.com
> (/(somewhere)/httpd.conf:724)
> port 80 namevhost www.MyDefaultServer.com
> (/(somewhere)/httpd.conf:724)
> port 80 namevhost www.MyPage.com
> (/(somewhere)/httpd.conf:751)
> wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
> _default_:443 new.host.name (/(somewhere)/ssl.conf:90)
> (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address
> 0.0.0.0:443
> no listening sockets available, shutting down
>
> Also, no matter what order i put the two hosts, when i call MyPage.com
> it automaticaly goes to the index.html page, when i call the
> MyDefaultServer.com page, it displays the index.html page of
> MyPage.com, further more when i type in MyDefaultServer.com/index.html
> it displays the right page!.
> What could i be doing wrong?
> Andrew

Are you using Apache 1.3.x ?

I am - and I've had similar problems with VirtualHosting before - I read
this solution somewhere, and it works for me:

In your httpd.conf file, check the following

#Listen 3000
#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
NameVirtualHost *

Therefore, the above has two lines that are disabled (the '#' character
does this in the config file).... The NameVirtualHost has a single
asterix, not an IP address in it.

Lastly, at the very end of my httpd.conf file I have

include "/data/www/config"


Then, in /data/www/config I have individual files for each one of my
virtual hosts - each has a specific configuration specific to that
domain. Any file that sits in that directory is taken as configuration
directives and are read as listed. I called my default file _default so
when you do an ls -l it gets listed first... and started/answered first
by the server for client requests.

My /data/www/config/_default file looks like the following:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /data/www/websites/mydomain.com/htdocs
ErrorLog /data/www/logs/mydomain.com-err.log
CustomLog /data/www/logs/mydomain.com-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

You can have more than one configuration directive in each file, I do
for some domains which have several sub-domains - The advantage to this
method is I have all directives for a single domain in a single file...
and any changes I do relate specifically to that domain, and not
globally... However, any changes to the parent httpd.conf file will of
course, make global changes.

One last thing - I should stress that any files you have sitting under
the directory you specify in the 'include' directive is taken to be a
configuration directive thus you might find, like I have more than once,
is that if you're editing a config file with 'vi' and restart Apache,
that Apache fails to start - This can be because a ".swp" (vi swap file)
exists in there, and it should clean up if you exit vi and then try
start Apache again.

I hope something above there helps you...

randelld

Thanks Randell,
there was a Virtualhost name/ip/port problem, and in the end i managed
to sort it out.
Now that I have resolved that, I have another question/problem (i have
looked for a solution on google but no luck), in my default
virtualHost page i would like to have linked buttons to web pages that
i will/am hosting on my server.
So far hitting a button on the default page when viewing on the server
machine it works (probably knows what to do), but when attempting to
do the same think from a remote computer, it doesn't work, it "plugs"
the url into the address bar, but as i am testing and not fully
opperational, cannot find (i understand search engines). what i would
like is if the default page could have a link to point to the
directory index.html page in a) the same user, but different file
(parralell), and eventualy to b) a file(s) in different users
accounts.
(i am using redhat 9 & apache 2)
Thanks heeps
Andrew

I have actualy an answer, but not quite as i'd liked, as when called
from a html page (like <a href="mysite/">mysite</a> ), an example
below:-
<virtualhost www.myhost.com>
ServerName www.Myhost.com
DocumentRoot /home/user/myhost/htdocs
DirectoryIndex index.html
ServerAdmin me@myhost.com
AddHandler cgi-script pl cgi
Alias /mysite/ /home/user/mysite/htdocs/
Alias /cgi-bin-mysite/ /home/user/mysite/htdocs/cgi-bin/
Alias /images-mysite/ /home/user/mysite/htdocs/images/
Alias /mysite2/ /home/user/mysite2/htdocs/
Alias /images-mysite2/ /home/user/mysite2/htdocs/images/
<Directory "/home/user/myhost/htdocs">
Options Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI +MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Allow from all
Order allow,deny
</Directory>
</virtualhost>
<virtualhost www.mysite.com>
ServerName www.mysite.com
(yada yada yada)
</virtualhost>
<virtualhost www.mysite2.com>
ServerName www.mysite2.com
(yada yada yada)
</virtualhost>

the "kinda-problem" is that i have to specificaly name all the
directories that go with the site, as in "images-mysite2",
"images-mysite-1".
What i want to achieve is to transfer the complete URL internaly, and
not have http://www.MyHost.com/mysite/index.html, but have
http://www.Mysite.com/ (i.e. a complete transfer)
any suggestions anyone?
Thanks
Andrew