centos 6 - Why my local website display Apache2 Test Page

apache2 centos-6 httpd

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2014-03

Tấn Triển Nguyễn

I've installed httpd, mysql and php on my CentOS 6.4 server. I've setup Virtual host 80 and 443 for trien.abc

My client (windows 7) still displays Apache2 test page. Where did I go wrong?

My Apache config file containing the VirtualHost definition is located in: /etc/httpd/vhosts/common/trien.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/testing.page
  ServerName trien.abc
  ServerAlias trien.abc
  ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/trien.error.log common
  LogFormat "%v %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b %f" common
  CustomLog /var/log/httpd/trien.access.log common
  AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

  <Directory "/var/www/vhosts/testing.page">
    AllowOverride All
    Allow from all
    Options -Indexes
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/testing.page just has one file: index.html. The contents of the file is "Welcome, trien".

It can't display the contents of the file, instead it displays the Apache2 test page.

Could you please help me?

Answers

Unnikrishnan

This could happen because of many reasons..Some of the possible reasons are the following

Check the selinux context of the index file. Try loading the page after setting selinux to permissive.
Check permissions of the index file. It should be readable to others
Have you restarted httpd after making changes?

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Check the DirecoryIndex in your httpd.conf. In your case, it must be

DirectoryIndex index.html

Please check your errorlog. paste it here if you cant troubleshoot.

Journeyman Geek

You haven't updated your index.html/index.php or more accurately where you go when you go to the root of your seite - the stock one Apache 2 is the 'test' page. Update your document root to the appropriate location and it should work.

Don't forget to enable the virtualhosts and restart apache.

dummy_site_1.conf

<VirtualHost local.dummy_site_1:80>
    ServerName local.dummy_site_1
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/dummy_site_1
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/dummy_site_1__error.log
    TransferLog /var/log/apache2/dummy_site_1__access.log
    <Directory /var/www/dummy_site_1>
        AllowOverride Options Limit None
        Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
    </Directory>
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    #DISABLE HTTP TRACE
    #RewriteEngine On
    #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
    #RewriteRule .* - [F]
</VirtualHost>

I also added this line the the httpd.conf:

ServerName local.dummy_site_1

Now all is working with this setup, I type local.dummy_site_1 in the URL and I can see my site.

The problem is when I try to add another site config dummy_site_2.conf and create about the same settings

dummy_site_2.conf

<VirtualHost local.dummy_site_2:80>
    ServerName local.dummy_site_2
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/dummy_site_2
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/dummy_site_2__error.log
    TransferLog /var/log/apache2/dummy_site_2__access.log
    <Directory /var/www/dummy_site_2>
        AllowOverride Options Limit None
        Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
    </Directory>
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    #DISABLE HTTP TRACE
    #RewriteEngine On
    #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
    #RewriteRule .* - [F]
</VirtualHost>

I also added this line the the httpd.conf:

ServerName local.dummy_site_2

I get this error:

user@host:/etc/apache2$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
 * Restarting web server apache2                                                                                                                                                                     [Wed Sep 15 14:00:43 2010] [error] (EAI 5)No address associated with hostname: Could not resolve host name local.dummy_site_2 -- ignoring!
 ... waiting [Wed Sep 15 14:00:44 2010] [error] (EAI 5)No address associated with hostname: Could not resolve host name local.dummy_site_2 -- ignoring!

Why? am I configuring this wrong?

Related Answers

Linker3000

You don't need 'ServerName local.dummy_site_2' in httpd.conf so take that out, but add this instead:

NameVirtualHost ip-address-of-server:80

eg: NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.10:80

Once you have made the change you will need to restart Apache.

If things still do not work as expected, add a line to each of your virtualhost conf files below the servername lines so they look like this:

ServerName local.dummy_site_1
ServerAlias *.local.dummy_site_1 local.dummy_site_1

and

ServerName local.dummy_site_2
ServerAlias *.local.dummy_site_2 local.dummy_site_2

Again, restart Apache to check out the changes.

EDIT: Silly me - just spotted the other bit of the problem - ALL of your VirtualHost declarations should use the IP address of the virtual server - eg:

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.10:80>

Carl Vancil

Actually, you can remove the IP address and or site name altogether.

example:

NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:443

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "/path/to/vhost/documents"
ServerName servername.domain.tld
ServerAlias serveralias.domain.tld
ErrorLog "/path/to/logfiles/servername.domain.tld-error.log"
CustomLog "/path/to/logfiles/servername.domain.tld-access.log" common
<Directory "/path/to/vhost/documents">
allow from all
Option +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "/path/to/vhost/documents"
ServerName servername.domain.tld
ServerAlias serveralias.domain.tld
SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile /path/to/certificate/file.cert
SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/certificate/file.key
ErrorLog "/path/to/logfiles/servername.domain.tld-error.log"
CustomLog "/path/to/logfiles/servername.domain.tld-access.log" common
<Directory "/path/to/vhost/documents">
allow from all
Option +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

(Now, lets do an example of vhost combined with mod_proxy; ip=numeric-octet, below)

<VirtualHost *:80>
ProxyPreserveHost Off
ProxyPass / http://ip.ip.ip.ip/
ProxyPassReverse / http://ip.ip.ip.ip/
ServerName servername.domain.tld
</VirtualHost>

Basically, so long as your DNS info matches up with the vhosts you configure, then it should all work.

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