Subject: Side Notes
Author: AwsEC2
In response to: A working case for name-based virtual hosting
Posted on: 08/29/2012 09:07:34 PM
1) The settings should be
# 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 /home/ec2-user/example2.com/html
<Directory /home/ec2-user/example2.com/html>
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.2.22 (Amazon) Server at www.example1.com Port 80
By default, the folder
/home/ec2-user comes with the permission
rwx------. Even though you have made all your document root
/home/ec2-user/example1.com/html accessible by 'others' via
rwxr-xr-x, http://www.example1.com/index.html will be forbidden. You have to allow the read permission from the very top node.
+ -- home rwxr-xr-x root
+ -- ec2-user rwxr-xr-x ec2-user
+ -- example1.com rwxr-xr-x ec2-user
+ -- html rwxr-xr-x ec2-user
- -- index.html rwxr-xr-x ec2-user
+ -- example2.com rwxr-xr-x ec2-user
+ -- html rwxr-xr-x ec2-user
- -- index.html rwxr-xr-x ec2-user
Location:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
123.123.123.123 example1.com www.example1.com
123.123.123.123 example2.com www.example2.com
Apparently, it works only from your local machine.
Type into your browser:
http://www.example1.com, you should get response similar like:
This is content from index file for www.example1.com
>
> On 10/18/2011 06:55:28 PM
Linux wrote:
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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