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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Kees Hoekzema <ke...@tweakers.net> on 2002/08/12 04:05:13 UTC
VirtualHosts and ServerName/Alias
Hey all,
I have a few questions concerning virtualhosts.
First, is it allowed to only use an ServerAlias is the <VirtualHost>?
Example:
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /www/htdocs/tweakers
ServerAlias *.tweakers.net
</VirtualHost>
So no "ServerName *.tweakers.net" here, instead of it a "ServerAlias
*.tweakers.net"
This is because i'm loadbalancing my site over up to 6 webservers, and i
want the name of that server to show up in the 40x, 50x and /server-status
pages. (so it says "realservername.tweakers.net" instead of
"virtualhostservername.tweakers.net").
Second, when I have an configuration like:
ServerName test.tweakers.net
DocumentRoot /www/htdocs
# vhost1
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /www/htdocs/tweakers.www
ServerAlias www.tweakers.net
</VirtualHost>
# vhost 2
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /www/htdocs/tweakers
ServerAlias *.tweakers.net
</VirtualHost>
and a request for test.tweakers.net comes in, wich docroot will get used?
three posibilities ofcourse: /www/htdocs, /www/htdocs/tweakers or
/www/htdocs/tweakers.www. And why?
tia,
Kees Hoekzema
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Re: VirtualHosts and ServerName/Alias
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
Kees Hoekzema wrote:
> So no "ServerName *.tweakers.net" here, instead of it a "ServerAlias
> *.tweakers.net"
> This is because i'm loadbalancing my site over up to 6 webservers, and i
> want the name of that server to show up in the 40x, 50x and /server-status
> pages. (so it says "realservername.tweakers.net" instead of
> "virtualhostservername.tweakers.net").
Use:
UseCanonicalName off
to get this to work. But you should also have a ServerName in there,
just for completeness if nothing else.
>
> Second, when I have an configuration like:
>
> ServerName test.tweakers.net
> DocumentRoot /www/htdocs
> # vhost1
> <VirtualHost *>
> DocumentRoot /www/htdocs/tweakers.www
> ServerAlias www.tweakers.net
> </VirtualHost>
> # vhost 2
> <VirtualHost *>
> DocumentRoot /www/htdocs/tweakers
> ServerAlias *.tweakers.net
> </VirtualHost>
>
> and a request for test.tweakers.net comes in, wich docroot will get used?
> three posibilities ofcourse: /www/htdocs, /www/htdocs/tweakers or
> /www/htdocs/tweakers.www. And why?
/www/htdocs/tweakers
Assuming you have "NameVirtualHost *", the /www/htdocs documentroot will
NEVER get used. *.tweakers.net matches test.tweakers.net, so that vhost
will be used. The exact matching algorithm is described in
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/name-based.html in the paragraph
that starts "Now when a request arrives ...".
Joshua.
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