Apache2+Vhosts+DynamicIP

Demontager · May 8, 2011

I have a question on setting up Apache on BSD, the system has installed quite recently, and first time for me, got base systen set only, no GUI. There is a goal to move my own 2 websites there.

I have two domains registered, will mention here as mydomain.com and mydomain1.com, they should resolve to my IP. There is another small problem - I have a dynamic IP, but deal it with dyndns.org, I have configured own hostname as myhost.homelinux.com, if I ping it, it resolves my current IP.

This hostname is registered in the DSL router configuration and the router reports IP changes on every IP changes to dyndns.

I set up Name Servers for myhost.homelinux.com in zoneedit

Code:

Name Server: NS18.ZONEEDIT.COM
Name Server: NS4.ZONEEDIT.COM

In the domain control panel I put these NS for both domains. Then I configured router to forward port 80 to the local BSDserver's IP - 192.168.1.5

I need help in configuring Apache, so it can serve 2 virtual hosts.

And questions I have interest in:

1. What to be put in /etc/hosts on BSDserver? Apart from FreeBSD I have 3 computers and all taking Internet from one router.
On all these computers exept BSDserver, I have set in /etc/hosts:

Code:

192.168.1.5 mydomain.com and mydomain1.com

2. How to configure httpd.conf? Especially interested in the field

Code:

ServerName www.example.com:80

I guess I should put myhost.homelinux.com there. Right?

My simplified config /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf (comments and some needed fields unhashed).

Code:

ServerRoot "/usr/local"

Listen 80

LoadModule authn_file_module libexec/apache22/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule authn_dbm_module libexec/apache22/mod_authn_dbm.so
LoadModule authn_anon_module libexec/apache22/mod_authn_anon.so
LoadModule authn_dbd_module libexec/apache22/mod_authn_dbd.so
LoadModule authn_default_module libexec/apache22/mod_authn_default.so
LoadModule authn_alias_module libexec/apache22/mod_authn_alias.so
LoadModule authz_host_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_user_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule authz_dbm_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_dbm.so
LoadModule authz_owner_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_owner.so
LoadModule authz_default_module libexec/apache22/mod_authz_default.so
LoadModule auth_basic_module libexec/apache22/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule auth_digest_module libexec/apache22/mod_auth_digest.so
LoadModule file_cache_module libexec/apache22/mod_file_cache.so
LoadModule cache_module libexec/apache22/mod_cache.so
LoadModule disk_cache_module libexec/apache22/mod_disk_cache.so
LoadModule mem_cache_module libexec/apache22/mod_mem_cache.so
LoadModule dbd_module libexec/apache22/mod_dbd.so
LoadModule bucketeer_module libexec/apache22/mod_bucketeer.so
LoadModule dumpio_module libexec/apache22/mod_dumpio.so
LoadModule case_filter_module libexec/apache22/mod_case_filter.so
LoadModule case_filter_in_module libexec/apache22/mod_case_filter_in.so
LoadModule reqtimeout_module libexec/apache22/mod_reqtimeout.so
LoadModule ext_filter_module libexec/apache22/mod_ext_filter.so
LoadModule include_module libexec/apache22/mod_include.so
LoadModule filter_module libexec/apache22/mod_filter.so
LoadModule charset_lite_module libexec/apache22/mod_charset_lite.so
LoadModule deflate_module libexec/apache22/mod_deflate.so
LoadModule log_config_module libexec/apache22/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule log_forensic_module libexec/apache22/mod_log_forensic.so
LoadModule logio_module libexec/apache22/mod_logio.so
LoadModule env_module libexec/apache22/mod_env.so
LoadModule mime_magic_module libexec/apache22/mod_mime_magic.so
LoadModule cern_meta_module libexec/apache22/mod_cern_meta.so
LoadModule expires_module libexec/apache22/mod_expires.so
LoadModule headers_module libexec/apache22/mod_headers.so
LoadModule usertrack_module libexec/apache22/mod_usertrack.so
LoadModule unique_id_module libexec/apache22/mod_unique_id.so
LoadModule setenvif_module libexec/apache22/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule version_module libexec/apache22/mod_version.so
LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache22/mod_ssl.so
LoadModule mime_module libexec/apache22/mod_mime.so
LoadModule dav_module libexec/apache22/mod_dav.so
LoadModule status_module libexec/apache22/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module libexec/apache22/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule asis_module libexec/apache22/mod_asis.so
LoadModule info_module libexec/apache22/mod_info.so
LoadModule cgi_module libexec/apache22/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module libexec/apache22/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/apache22/mod_vhost_alias.so
LoadModule negotiation_module libexec/apache22/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule dir_module libexec/apache22/mod_dir.so
LoadModule imagemap_module libexec/apache22/mod_imagemap.so
LoadModule actions_module libexec/apache22/mod_actions.so
LoadModule speling_module libexec/apache22/mod_speling.so
LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache22/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module libexec/apache22/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache22/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache22/libphp5.so

<IfModule !mpm_netware_module>
<IfModule !mpm_winnt_module>

User www
Group www

</IfModule>
</IfModule>


ServerAdmin you@example.com

ServerName www.example.com:80

DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/apache22/data"


<Directory />
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

<Directory "/usr/local/www/apache22/data">

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride None

    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

</Directory>


<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>


<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>


ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd-error.log"

LogLevel warn

<IfModule log_config_module>

    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common

    <IfModule logio_module>
      # You need to enable mod_logio.c to use %I and %O
      LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio
    </IfModule>

    CustomLog "/var/log/httpd-access.log" combined
</IfModule>

<IfModule alias_module>


    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/www/apache22/cgi-bin/"

</IfModule>

<IfModule cgid_module>
 
</IfModule>

<Directory "/usr/local/www/apache22/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>


DefaultType text/plain

<IfModule mime_module>
 
    TypesConfig etc/apache22/mime.types

 
    AddType application/x-compress .Z
    AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz


</IfModule>

# Virtual hosts
Include etc/apache22/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

# Various default settings
Include etc/apache22/extra/httpd-default.conf


<IfModule ssl_module>
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
</IfModule>

Include etc/apache22/Includes/*.conf

3. How to describe virtual hosts in httpd-vhosts.conf? One website working on joomla other one - drupal. When installed from "ports" websites coming to /usr/local/www/mydomain.com and /usr/local/www/mydomain1.com, directory names joomla, drupal, I have changed to my websites names respectively. I put these settings in /usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. Please correct me if wrong.

Code:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email]webmaster@mydomain.com[/email]
    DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/mydomain.com"
    ServerName mydomen.com
    ServerAlias [url]www.mydomain.com[/url]
    ErrorLog "/var/log/mydomain.com-error_log"
    CustomLog "/var/log/mydomain.com-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email]webmaster@mydomain1.com[/email]
    DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/mydomain1.com"
    ServerName mydomain1.com
    ErrorLog "/var/log/mydomain1.com-error_log"
    CustomLog "/var/log/mydomain1.com-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

Demontager · May 9, 2011

I have rewritten my httpd.conf http://pastebin.com/cXFdgNi0 and vhosts.conf include file.

Code:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@mydomain.com
    DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/mydomain"
    ServerName www.mydomain.com
    ErrorLog "/var/log/mydomain.com-error_log"
    CustomLog "/var/log/mydomain.com-access_log" common
<Directory "/usr/local/www/mydomain">
   Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews
   AllowOverride All
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@mydomain1.com
    DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/mydomain1"
    ServerName www.mydomain1.com
    ErrorLog "/var/log/mydomain1.com-error_log"
    CustomLog "/var/log/mydomain1.com-access_log" common

<Directory "/usr/local/www/mydomain1">
   Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews
   AllowOverride All
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

But when I point from another system to http://www.mydomain1.com it goes to http://www.mydomain.com. What's wrong here?

Code:

BsdServer /etc/hosts
 ::1            localhost
127.0.0.1        localhost
192.168.1.5 [url]www.mydomain.com[/url] [url]www.mydomain1.com[/url] free-snich

AndyUKG · May 9, 2011

Hi,

first off, to simplify your life and debugging the issue, what is in /etc/hosts is not important so you can forget about that causing you a problem.

What you have now looks fine on the face of it, does # apachectl -t come back without any errors? You have restarted or HUP'd the HTTPD daemons too of course?
One common mistake is people get confused between addresses starting with and without "www.". To be safe you can avoid these issues by using "ServerAlias" like this:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@mydomain.com
    DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/mydomain"
    ServerName www.mydomain.com
    ServerAlias mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

thanks Andy.

Demontager · May 10, 2011

AndyUKG, thanks, the problem was in "www" as you told, now all fine.

Only one problem remained with one domain - it is not working from the Internet. I will discuss real domain names which I own to be clear in problem.

So, I got two own domains max-cook.com and nixtalks.com, but only the first one works. These two domains have the same NS. Also I got dynamic IP, so I use dyndns.org and it monitors my IP changes, config is http://s011.radikal.ru/i315/1105/05/3cfbca5c709e.jpg,

And also I use zoneedit to get NS for domain registered in dyndns, settings are http://s50.radikal.ru/i129/1105/3c/19df380b5857.jpg.

So max-cook.com works fine with that config, dig shows http://pastebin.com/0SJ1ppEL And nixtalks.com does not, dig shows http://pastebin.com/3JP5x7DY.

P.s. 192.168.1.1 my router config, settings for dyndns.org are there, so every time my IP changes it updates it to dyndns. How to make nixtalks.com work as well?

AndyUKG · May 10, 2011

Just had a look on dig, looks like both sites are registered correctly in DNS now...

ta Andy.

Demontager · May 11, 2011

Yes, I didn't create one more zone for second domain. All fine now, thanks!

Apache2+Vhosts+DynamicIP

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