Subject: A working case for name-based virtual hosting
Author: Linux
In response to: Running multiple name-based websites on a single IP address
Posted on: 10/18/2011 06:55:28 PM
For same reason, the name-based virtual hosting on explicit IP address is not working on AWS EC2 Micro instance. But the wildcard * is working which means it is going to accept all requests to this server. Any request with unmatched domain/server name will be served by the first <VirtualHost> block, which is the default one.
# Listen for virtual host requests
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example1.com
ServerAlias www.example1.com
DocumentRoot /home/ec2-user/example1.com/html
SuexecUserGroup ec2-user ec2-user
<Directory /home/ec2-user/example1.com/html>
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example2.com
ServerAlias www.example2.com
DocumentRoot /www/ec2-user/example2.com/html
<Directory /home/ec2-user/example2.com/html>
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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> On 10/13/2011 08:59:31 PM
Linux wrote:
Your server has a single IP address, for example, 123.123.123.123, and multiple aliases (CNAMES) point to this machine in DNS. Specifically, You want to run a web server for www.example1.com and www.example2.com on the same machine.
example1.com --- DNS ---|
|
|--- 123.123.123.123 ---> /home/ec2-user
| + -- /example1.com
example2.com --- DNS ---| + -- /html
- -- index.html
+ -- /example2.com
+ -- /html
- -- index.html
Here is the corresponding settings in "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf"
# Ensure that Apache listens on port 80
Listen 80
# Listen for virtual host requests on IP addresse: 123.123.123.123
NameVirtualHost 123.123.123.123:80
<VirtualHost 123.123.123.123:80>
DocumentRoot /home/ec2-user/example1.com/html
ServerName example1.com
ServerAlias www.example1.com
# Other directives here
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 123.123.123.123:80>
DocumentRoot /www/ec2-user/example2.com/html
ServerName example2.com
ServerAlias www.example2.com
# Other directives here
</VirtualHost>
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