Having a Bugger of a Time With VirtualHost's

[a_user]

Hi All,

 

Im having a bugger of a time getting VirtualHost’s to work correctly for my domain. I am currently using XAMPP 1.6.4 on Windows 2003 for my testing environment.

 

What I am trying to do is create a suddomain of forum. for my domain of abc123.com (fictitious).

 

When users enter forum.abc123.com I want to them to go to the forums page. c:/xampp/htdocs/forum When users enter www.abc123.com I want them to be accessing the main web page c:/xampp/htdocs/wp

 

This is what I have in my httpd.conf file for my virtualhosts configuration:

 

#Virtual hosts

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot c:/xampp/htdocs

ServerName www.abc123.com

</VirtualHost>

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/forum

ServerName forums.abc123.com

</VirtualHost>

 

Notice that I currently have c:/xampp/htdocs as the default root folder as per defaults.

 

 

The examples from the apache tutorials themselves are as below:

 

# Ensure that Apache listens on port 80

Listen 80

 

# Listen for virtual host requests on all IP addresses

NameVirtualHost *:80

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot /www/example1

ServerName www.example1.com

 

# Other directives here

 

</VirtualHost>

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot /www/example2

ServerName www.example2.org

 

# Other directives here

 

</VirtualHost>

 

I have also ensured the vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so is set to load. At least I think so..I removed the # from the config file httpd.conf for it.

 

Your help is appreciated here as I am pretty new to this. I have reviewed a number of documents, a number of which contradict each other by the way.

 

Thanks!

 

[a_user]

All of the looking and testing!! I just came across this here post with the following recommendation:

 

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>

    DocumentRoot /var/www/lax/html/

    ServerName www.orilliawomenslacrosse.com

    ServerSignature On

    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml

</VirtualHost>

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/hdog

    ServerName www.thehdog.com

    ServerSignature On

    DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml

</VirtualHost>

 

This worked.