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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:00:41 +0200
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Thread-Topic: [users@httpd] VirtualHost HELP!
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From: "Boyle Owen" <Owen.Boyle@swx.com>
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>
Subject: RE: [users@httpd] VirtualHost HELP!

Plain text please..

I had a quick look at your config and it seems reasonably OK - you have
a NameVirtualHost directive and your VH blocks look OK. However, if you
separate out the important parts of the config, you get:

<outside VH>
ServerName www.chmsmortgage.com
DocumentRoot "C:/CHMS_Site"

<VH1>
  ServerName yourlastmortgage.com
  DocumentRoot "C:/CHMS_Site/EM"
<VH2>
  ServerName chmsmortgage.com
  DocumentRoot "C:/CHMS_Site"

- The VH ServerNames do not begin "www." - is this intentional? Do you
really want the sites to be http://yourlastmortgage.com and
http://chmsmortgage.com/? (Guess you do - they work :-)
- the first block acts as a kind of "default" server, but it has the
same docroot as VH2. Hmmm... Not sure why you'd want this.
- VH1's docroot is a sub-dir of VH2's docroot. This means that
http://chmsmortgage.com/EM/page.html and
http://yourlastmortgage.com/page.html lead to the same file. Is this
intentional?

I think the last point might be the root of your trouble - most of the
time, different VHs access separate branches of the filesystem, e.g. VH1
-> /home/html/vh1_data, VH2 -> /home/html/vh2_data etc. There is nothing
wrong with having different VHs come in at different levels on the same
filesystem but it would certainly make your internal <img> and <a href>
tags complicated. I notice that in the pages you use relative URLs to
images (e.g. <img src="images/blankdot.gif"> so this would mean that for
your two VHs to work, you'd need two images directories,
C:/CHMS_Site/EM/images and C:/CHMS_Site/images. Do you have that?

I would suggest the following:

- Tidy up the config; put all site specific directives inside VHs and
use ServerAlias, e.g.

<VH1>
  ServerName chmsmortgage.com
  ServerAlias www.chmsmortgage.com
  DocumentRoot "C:/CHMS_Site"
<VH2>
  ServerName yourlastmortgage.com
  ServerAlias www.yourlastmortgage.com
  DocumentRoot "C:/CHMS_Site/EM"

N.B. put your default VH first - if apache comes in with the correct IP
address but can't match the ServerName, it takes the first one it finds.

- Put all the images in one directory, e.g. C:/CHMS_Site/images in VH1.
Then use an Alias in VH2 to map to it:

	Alias /images C:/CHMS_Site/images

This way, http://chmsmortgage.com/images/pic.gif and
http://yourlastmortgage.com/images/pic.gif lead to the same file, even
though the VHs have different docroots. Now you can reference images
throughout both sites with *absolute* URLS, e.g. <img
src="/images/blankdot.gif"> (N.B. The leading "/" on the file path!)

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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-----Original Message-----
From: Webmaster [mailto:webmaster@chmsmortgage.com]
Sent: Mittwoch, 16. April 2003 21:32
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: [users@httpd] VirtualHost HELP!


I have set up a few Apache Servers, all on Windows 2000 machines, and
all successfully using VirtualHost.

I am moving a site from hosting at one server to a new server running on
Windows XP Pro.

I can not getting the VirtualHost to work correctly.

I am running Apache 2.0.45 with PHP 4.3.0, on a windows XP Pro machine.

Basically I am trying to host two sites, and the VirtualHosts, are
"bleeding" together, pulling the index.html file from the wrong document
root, but the correct image from the correct document root. 

I have tried virtually every deviation of NameServer address, using IP
Address within VirtualHost tags, Using IP and Port within VirtualHost
tags, Using * within VirtualHost tags.  I have also tried using
ApacheConf, and recreating the conf file from scratch.

I am at a total loss here...

Any, and I mean ANY ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Please feel free to view my http.conf file at
http://www.chmsmortgage.com/myconf.conf

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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