[KLUG Members] Apache/HTTP Problem: Virtual Host Freakout

[Robert G. Brown]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:31:49 -0500, Kevin Wixson wrote:

>What would make a previously working name-based Virtual Host on a 
>testing server suddenly start showing the "Test Page for Apache" page, 
>like what you get when you first set up Apache and browse to the IP 
>address of the machine?
Several things.

>A different Virtual Host on the same machine still does work.
OK, and obvious (maybe dumb) question is: "What is different between the 
two virtual hosts?".

>I didn't do anything to the server between Friday, when 
>it was last working, and today, when I discovered there was a problem. 
We don't believe you, of course! :) Either the problem existed before and
you were not aware of it, or you made a subtle and (you thought) unrelated 
change to the server enviroment.... OR... you made a (similar?) change to
the client that now makes the site unreachable for some reason. I do not
beleive the error "just started to happen"; we don't live in a magical 
world.

Hmmm... is there an automatic update effecting the server or the client?
Another possibility... am I grasping at straws?... well, yes.

>Browsing to yet another Virtual Host that used to be working is giving 
>me a "server not found" error in the browser.
Ah, so how many virtual hosts do you have on that machine, and which ones 
work?

>I have checked the following:

>1.) my local hosts file -- the hostnames I'm using for the virtual hosts 
>are there, and pointing to the proper IP (internal)
Local to what? A client on a different LAN host? On the same box as the server?

>2.) my server IP (interal) is the one in my local hosts file
>From these questions I am concluding that this is a LAN-only virtual host.

>3.) I checked my httpd.conf for each of the virtual hosts to confirm the 
>hostnames were correct, pointing to a directory that exists and has my 
>web files
Um, let's see... permissions? 

Another thought... have you checked the error logs of the virtual hosts?
the server access logs? please do so if you have not.

Offered as leads and food for thought and examination. Please provide more
information and we can reach more specific conclusions.

							Regards,
							---> RGB <---