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Old January 7th, 2002, 07:53 PM
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I currently own 2 domain names. One, in which I have pointed to my server so I can host it. The other is just lying around doing nothing. I wanted to get the domain name back up and running. How do I add a second domain name to apache ?

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Old January 8th, 2002, 04:08 AM
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You need to disable the general server name set in the apache config file, and need to add a virtual host for EVERY domain you are hosting, so also for your servername for example.

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin you@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /web/yourdomain.com/html
ServerName www.yourdomain.com
ErrorLog /web/yourdomain.com/logs/yourdomain.com-error_log
CustomLog /web/yourdomain.com/logs/yourdomain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>


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If I setup a virtual host for all of my domains and use the DocumentRoot inside of the virtual host command, what should I do with the DocumentRoot thats not in the virtual host tag.

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Old January 8th, 2002, 09:22 AM
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Skeasor,

You can just leave that I think.
As far as I am aware, as soon as you start hosting more than 1 domain, it will always use one of the virtualhosts, so if you have your documentroots defined in there correctly you are ready to run.

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Will this same setup work for local machines? If I have a machine named "server", but I want to host two internal sites named "site1" and "site2", can I set up Apache to handle requests for "http://site1" and "http://site2"? Would I have to add DNS entries for "site1" and "site2"?
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>> Would I have to add DNS entries for "site1" and "site2"?

Just setup a Hosts file. For example,

/etc/hosts or C:\Windows\Hosts:

127.0.0.1 localhost site1.localdomain.com site2.localdomain.com
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And then Apache's virtual hosting capabilities will point the request to the correct document root, right?
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Apache reads /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts. If you setup /etc/hosts correctly, Apache will recognize site1 and site2 and resolve to 127.0.0.1. This is the minimum DNS requirement in order for you to create <VirtualHost> and assign different ServerName and DocumentRoot based on the servername.
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Cool, thanks for the info.
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