Need help understanding and using vhosts

[Risc OS]

Hello,

 

At work I have a webserver on my machine for testing.

I want to add new subdomains so that I can access different projects.

 

I created one successfully, or so I thought. It seem to work fine, until I tried to view the default site. Than  I noticed that no matter what address I type, I always see the new subdomain page. I only discovered this after trying to create a second subdomain.

 

Can anyone recommend some links for beginners with apache (and linux) and how to setup subdomains.

 

The default address is omething like:

 

subname.name.local

 

I want also two sub-domains:

typotest.name.local and

pres.name.local.

 

After creating the first subdomain I saw the page specified for : typotest.name.local

 

but also when I visit subname.name.local (the default one set up by my network admin) I see the page for typotest.name.local

 

 

[leonglass]

I think your problem may be that if you create a vhost your default host disappears. You will need to redefine the default one as a vhost also. I do something similar but with the Drupal cms so that I can create different sites on the same server through different domains but use the same code base. Don't know what OS you are on but I have Gentoo which sets up a vhost by default otherwise I would have had the same problem as you. Try redefining your default localhost (I assume) as a vhost to see if it comes back.