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    Two Apache Virtual Hosts, One Server, Port 80

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      What you are going to use here are called host headers. The Apache server actually reads the HTTP has it comes across and looks in it to see which site is requested. It then directs that request to the correct virtual server.

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      • thanksajdotcomT
        thanksajdotcom @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said:

        What you are going to use here are called host headers. The Apache server actually reads the HTTP has it comes across and looks in it to see which site is requested. It then directs that request to the correct virtual server.

        Ok, so do I just need to lookup how to setup host headers in Ubuntu? Or is that just a function in Apache I need to tweak somewhere?

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        • ?
          A Former User
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          Ah, vhosts. It's pretty simple. It see what domain was requested and use the correct directory. You will have to use the dns name to browse the site though, IP address won't return the correct website with vhosts of course since their is only one.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @thanksajdotcom
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            @ajstringham said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            What you are going to use here are called host headers. The Apache server actually reads the HTTP has it comes across and looks in it to see which site is requested. It then directs that request to the correct virtual server.

            Ok, so do I just need to lookup how to setup host headers in Ubuntu? Or is that just a function in Apache I need to tweak somewhere?

            Just Apache.

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            • thanksajdotcomT
              thanksajdotcom @A Former User
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              @thecreativeone91 said:

              Ah, vhosts. It's pretty simple. It see what domain was requested and use the correct directory. You will have to use the dns name to browse the site though, IP address won't return the correct website with vhosts of course since their is only one.

              DNS name is fine. That's how it'll be used exclusively.

              I've followed this, updated for Ubuntu 14.04 (always a couple tweaks).
              https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts

              Can you see anything I'm missing to get DNS working?

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              • ?
                A Former User @thanksajdotcom
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                @ajstringham What is it currently doing/what's your error?

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                • thanksajdotcomT
                  thanksajdotcom @A Former User
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                  @thecreativeone91 said:

                  @ajstringham What is it currently doing/what's your error?

                  The site currently loads my site correctly but not the other website. Everything appears to be setup correctly. I can't figure out what the issue is.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @thanksajdotcom
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                    @ajstringham said:

                    @thecreativeone91 said:

                    @ajstringham What is it currently doing/what's your error?

                    The site currently loads my site correctly but not the other website. Everything appears to be setup correctly. I can't figure out what the issue is.

                    Assuming this is still hosted internally, is your hairpin NAT rules picking up the second DNS name and rerouting appropriately? I cannot think of a scenario that wouldn't since it should all revolve around the IP, but just another thing to check.

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch
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                      my httpd.conf (CentOS 6.5) looks like this:

                      <VirtualHost *:80>
                      	ServerAdmin [email protected]
                      	DirectoryIndex index.html
                      	DocumentRoot /var/www/daerma.com
                      	ServerName daerma.com
                      	ServerAlias *.daerma.com
                      	LogLevel warn
                      	ErrorLog logs/daerma.com-error_log
                      	CustomLog logs/daerma.com-access_log common
                      </VirtualHost>
                      <VirtualHost *:80>
                         ServerAdmin [email protected]
                         DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
                         DocumentRoot /var/www/jaredbusch.com
                         ServerName jaredbusch.com
                         ServerAlias *.jaredbusch.com
                         LogLevel Warn
                         ErrorLog logs/jaredbusch.com-error_log
                         CustomLog logs/jaredbusch.com-access_log common
                      </VirtualHost>
                      
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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch
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                        and no, there is nothing on jaredbusch.com yet. I just bought it because it was available.

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                        • thanksajdotcomT
                          thanksajdotcom @JaredBusch
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                          @JaredBusch said:

                          and no, there is nothing on jaredbusch.com yet. I just bought it because it was available.

                          It should have been "youcametojared.com". 😛

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                          • thanksajdotcomT
                            thanksajdotcom @thanksajdotcom
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                            @ajstringham said:

                            @JaredBusch said:

                            and no, there is nothing on jaredbusch.com yet. I just bought it because it was available.

                            It should have been "youcametojared.com". 😛

                            Then again, this could send entirely the wrong message...

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                            • thanksajdotcomT
                              thanksajdotcom @JaredBusch
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                              @JaredBusch said:

                              @ajstringham said:

                              @thecreativeone91 said:

                              @ajstringham What is it currently doing/what's your error?

                              The site currently loads my site correctly but not the other website. Everything appears to be setup correctly. I can't figure out what the issue is.

                              Assuming this is still hosted internally, is your hairpin NAT rules picking up the second DNS name and rerouting appropriately? I cannot think of a scenario that wouldn't since it should all revolve around the IP, but just another thing to check.

                              Hairpin NAT rules?

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                              • JaredBuschJ
                                JaredBusch
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                                @ajstringham said:

                                @JaredBusch said:

                                @ajstringham said:

                                @thecreativeone91 said:

                                @ajstringham What is it currently doing/what's your error?

                                The site currently loads my site correctly but not the other website. Everything appears to be setup correctly. I can't figure out what the issue is.

                                Assuming this is still hosted internally, is your hairpin NAT rules picking up the second DNS name and rerouting appropriately? I cannot think of a scenario that wouldn't since it should all revolve around the IP, but just another thing to check.

                                Hairpin NAT rules?

                                When you host stuff at home, you will have a problem with NAT.

                                daerma.com resolves publicly my current IP.
                                but the internal server is on a local IP of course.
                                By default that means daerma.com should not be reachable from inside my network. because a DNS lookup will return the public IP. A router running standard NAT masquerade rules will not route it correctly because it is targeting the WAN port of the router from the LAN.
                                So there were special NAT rules called hairpining designed to handle it.
                                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairpinning

                                Almost every home router has it enabled by defualt. I have no idea how dd-wrt handles it, other than to know it has the functionality.

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