Creating a virtual host using webmin: settings, directives, experience and behaviour...

[dil_bert]

hello dear freaks  

 

probably the Apache-supforum fits most here - for this setup-question. 

 

I'm currently working on a setup of a server to host multiple websites on a single IP. Note: i am on openSuse and Webmin. 

configurations and setup: i have installed Webmin on an OpenSuse-server.  I created the directory /var/www/sites/my_testsite. Then I created a virtual host under Webmin->Servers->Apache Webserver with the following settings:

Address: Any
Port: 80
Document Root: /var/www/sites/my_testsite
Server Name: my_testsite.com
 

Address: Any
Port: 80
Document Root: /var/www/sites/my_testsite
Server Name: my_testsite.com

 

Then, to test it, I edited the hosts file on my local machine and added

[my.server.ip.address] my_testsite.com. 

Then went to my_testsite.com in my browser and encountered a issue: 

the problem i encountered: the browser is loading the default site (at /var/www) instead of the virtual one I just have been creating
(I verfied this by adding 

different index.html files in /var/www and /var/www/sites/my_testsite).

Well i muse what goes wrong here at the moment: 

I have written down the directives and all the config-things: 

Here are the directives webmin created in /etc/apache2/sites-available/webmin.1372499999999888777656578.conf

DocumentRoot /var/www/sites/my_testsite
<Directory "/var/www/sites/my_testsite">
allow from all
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
ServerName my_testsite.com
ServerAlias www.my_testsite.com

an update: i fixed this by adding directive ServerAlias domain.tld *.domain.tld
i found this at the setup under Apache -> the Virtual Domain settings -> Networking and Addresses -> Alternate virtual server names FIELD.
domain.tld *.domain.tld

question: 
- is it very important to add server name initially and then webmin virtual host edit/delete, 
- i can imagine that if i do so, it does not updated the directive and subsequently the Server Name will be missing in it
- so the question is: do i need to add the Server name and then Restarting apache in order to make it work? 

 

Servers -> Apache Webserver: Select your virtual Server -> Edit Directives

 

and subsequently: 

Server Name: my_testsite.com
Others -> Command Shell

service apache2 restart

i then opened the web address in browser.

besides this: is it thinkable that the mixing with 'Any' with a specific port doesn't play nicely for some reason.

so the question here is: should i try to run with the vhost settings to:

Address: Any
Port: Any
Document Root: /var/www/sites/my_testsite
Server Name: my_testsite.com

and do not choose or select a specific port!?

on a side note, should i do the setting of my sites to not allow directory indexing?

look forward to hear from you 

yours dil_bert