J. Greenlees wrote:
[...]
As slightly off-topic, I would like to add a note :
Because of the way in which VirtualHosts work, with the first-defined
VHost being the one handling all requests which somehow are "wrong", it
is often difficult to sort out where such problems are coming from.
To avoid this, I usually define a first Vhost that has some non-real DNS
ServerName (e.g. ServerName defaulthost), specifically to catch
requests that arrive at the server with an invalid hostname (for example
someone entering "http://(server-ip-address)". That one has a
DocumentRoot containing a single html index page, which shows clearly
that the caller shouldn't do that. It also has its own separate logfiles.
That helps sorting out the "wrong" calls from the "good" calls.
In your case, that would be something like :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName default
DocumentRoot /home/defaulthost/docs
DirectoryIndex DontDoThat.html
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/defaulthost-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/defaulthost-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin
DocumentRoot /home/jaqui/public_html
ServerName dev.runic-hosting.com
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/dev.runic-hosting.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/dev.runic-hosting.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin
DocumentRoot /home/dawnfyre/public_html
ServerName dev.jaqui-greenlees.net
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/dev.jaqui-greenlees.net-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/dev.jaqui-greenlees.net-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin
DocumentRoot /home/shawan/public_html
ServerName dev.shawanspage.com
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/dev.shawanspage.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/dev.shawanspage.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
Since "default" is not a valid DNS name, nobody would ever get to your
server using "http://default";. But that host would catch calls to
"http://ip-address-of-your-server";, and also re-directed calls that
somehow do not have a "Host:" header, or an invalid one (like possibly
the result of wrong re-directs).
And in its logfile, you would have these calls isolated from the
explicit calls to your host "dev.runic-hosting.com".
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