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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:02:00 +0200
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Thread-Topic: [users@httpd] need help with ip addr not resolving to www name.
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From: "Boyle Owen" <Owen.Boyle@swx.com>
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>
Subject: RE: [users@httpd] need help with ip addr not resolving to www name.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: CJ [mailto:unix1adm@yahoo.com]
>
>This is what I see in my error log.. Also the page
>never loads.=20
>
>123.123.123.123 - - [23/Oct/2003:09:28:45 -0400] "GET
>/index_main.html HTTP/1.1" 302 318
>
>What is the 302 and 318 code??? I also saw 330
>342,352,338 , lots of 311 and 296 codes at the end.=20

The 302 is the HTTP status code. Here's a good definition of these: =
http://www.december.com/html/spec/httpstat.html. In this case, 302 is a =
redirection message.=20

The 318 is not a code, it's the number of bytes in the response. 318 =
bytes is quite small but typical of the short redirection message your =
server sent.

Returning to the problem, since your browser fails to load anything, the =
redirection address must be wrong. You should feel happy - you've got it =
half-working :-)

To proceed, you need to see what's wrong with the redirection address.

- what does the browser address change to (it should change to the new =
address when redirected)?
- what have you defined in the "Redirect" directive in your config?

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.=20

>
>I was following the example on th www site and in this
>mail. Not sure what I did wrong.=20
>
>--- Boyle Owen <Owen.Boyle@swx.com> wrote:
>> Plain text please...
>>=20
>> I think you might be misunderstanding the function
>> of the ServerName
>> directive. It is used by apache to match INCOMING
>> requests to the
>> appropriate virtual host. It is not "returned" to
>> the client...
>>=20
>> Assuming http, a URL consists of two parts:=20
>>=20
>> 	http://host/localinfo
>>=20
>> - The "host" can be a fully-qualified domain name,
>> like www.amazon.com,
>> a machine name on the local network, or a bare IP
>> address. It may or may
>> not include a port number - if it doesn't, port 80
>> is assumed. In any
>> case, it must resolve to an IP address.
>> - The "localinfo" is the path to the file you want
>> from the DocumentRoot
>> of the VH defined by the "host".
>>=20
>> If your link contains an IP address as the Host,
>> then when the request
>> arrives at apache, it will have no "host"
>> information. If you have
>> several name-based VHs, apache will not be able to
>> match it to any
>> particular one and so will serve the first VH by
>> default. If you have
>> only one VH, it will serve that one. Note that
>> apache just serves files
>> - it doesn't tell the client anything about the VH
>> configuration...
>>=20
>> However, the way to get things to work the way you
>> want is to set up
>> name-based virtual hosting with two VHs. One is your
>> "real" VH with the
>> "real" ServerName and the other, which must come
>> first, is a dummy VH
>> with a fake ServerName. The dummy VH then redirects
>> all traffic to the
>> real VH. E.g.
>>=20
>> NameVirtualHost *
>>=20
>> # Fake VH to trap host-less requests
>> <VirtualHost *>
>>   ServerName dummy-fake
>>   Redirect / http://www.your-server.com/
>> </VirtualHost>
>>=20
>> # Real VH
>> <VirtualHost *>
>>   ServerName www.your-server.com
>>   DocumentRoot /path/to/real/site
>>   ...etc.
>>=20
>> So what happens is:
>>=20
>> - request comes in with no host header
>> - doesn't match VH1 (servername =3D dummy-fake)
>> - doesn't match VH2 (servername =3D
>> www.your-server.com)
>> - so apache serves VH1 by default
>> - VH1 says, redirect to www.your-server.com
>> - apache sends 301 Redirect to the browser
>> - browser receives the redirect and changes display
>> to read
>> www.your-server.com
>> - new request comes in WITH host header =3D
>> www.your-server.com
>> - doesn't match VH1 (servername =3D dummy-fake)
>> - matches VH2 so browser gets that data.
>>=20
>> Rgds,
>> Owen Boyle
>> Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message
>> may be ignored.=20
>>=20
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: CJ [mailto:unix1adm@yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2003 02:21
>> To: users@httpd.apache.org
>> Subject: [users@httpd] need help with ip addr not
>> resolving to www name.
>>=20
>>=20
>> How can I get apache to not return the IP address of
>> my server.=20
>> =20
>> I have links that go to an address of=20
>> =20
>> http://123.123.123.123/index.html  but when you
>> click on the link in the
>> browser address it shows the ip addr not the domain
>> name. I have defined
>> the server in the httpd.conf file to be ServerName
>> www.mydomain.com but
>> it still show the IP addr. Stopped and restarted the
>> apache server etc.=20
>> =20
>> The environment is such that the initial page is
>> hosted on a 3rd party
>> www server and it has links back to the real server.
>> The links work fine
>> just the IP addr is the problem.=20
>>=20
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