NameVirtualHost: Questions on proper usage

Hello,

I am wanting to clean up my Apache 2.2.9 (Debian Package) installation after modifying it to virtual host 7 domains in order to make it more robust, understandable, secure and maintainable. I want to have one of these sites being a SSL site.

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I have read the section on NameVirtualHost,
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#namevirtualho st

* Does NameVirtualHost get used in every entry in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ ? Is it redundant to include that declaration in all the others as well?

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The reason I ask this is I am having a warning delivered to me.

I initially have one website enabled. The entry in sites-available is defined like this:

NameVirtualHost *:80

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When I enable a second website whose entry is identical in layout, I reload and am told:

[warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

And when I comment out the NameVirtualHost *:80, for the second entry in sites-available, the warning is gone. This leads me to believe that this declaration is redundant.

What are your thoughts?


Thanks for your help!

Tim Legg





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Re: NameVirtualHost: Questions on proper usage

Tim Legg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am wanting to clean up my Apache 2.2.9 (Debian Package) installation after modifying it to virtual host 7 domains in order to make it more robust, understandable, secure and maintainable. I want to have one of these sites being a SSL site.
>
> -----
>
> I have read the section on NameVirtualHost,
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#namevirtualho st
>
> * Does NameVirtualHost get used in every entry in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ ? Is it redundant to include that declaration in all the others as well?

sites-available is a debianism designed to confuse.

You should only have one NameVirtualHost (for any IP:port).
It goes before any of the virtualhost definitions.

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Re: NameVirtualHost: Questions on proper usage

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Nick Kew wrote:
> Tim Legg wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am wanting to clean up my Apache 2.2.9 (Debian Package) installation
>> after modifying it to virtual host 7 domains in order to make it more
>> robust, understandable, secure and maintainable. =A0I want to have one o=
f
>> these sites being a SSL site.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> I have read the section on NameVirtualHost,
>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#namevirtualho st
>>
>> * Does NameVirtualHost get used in every entry in
>> /etc/apache2/sites-available/ ? =A0Is it redundant to include that decla=
ration
>> in all the others as well?
>
> sites-available is a debianism designed to confuse.

I find it actually a quite usefull feature. Allows me to quickly
enable/disable virtual servers.

> You should only have one NameVirtualHost (for any IP:port).
> It goes before any of the virtualhost definitions.

The way I did it is to have a "000_default" in my sites-available,
that's always enabled (linked in sites-enabled).
In this file I have the NameVirtualHost directive, and the default,
catch-all, virtual host.

The other virtual hosts config files don't have the NameVirtualHost directi=
ve.

Krist



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