Fedora Core – virtual hosts httpd
I’ve reinstalled my pc with Fedora Core recently, because of the extended SELinux and more tools that are at my disposal. A problem I always had with ubuntu was the configuration of Apache virtual hosts. Once they where installed I needed to put them into the host file and each time I reconnected to a network the NetworkManager rewrote the hosts file annoying me and the fact that if one was configured localhost would also begin pointing to it, a rather nasty thing.
First you need to open the console and login with your root user, type su and fedora will already know what to do.
You need to shutdown the httpd servic deamon with the command :
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You will have to open /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, once opened you will have to locate the section on virtual hosts and you should see an example that is already commented out., I edited the files with nano in the console.
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Instead of telling you which lines to uncomment, I’m going to show you below, the stanzas to add to the Virtual Host section to get companyABC.com and companyDEF.com websites running:
001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 ServerAdmin root@localhost010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 ServerAdmin root@localhost041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 ServerAdmin root@localhost081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 ServerAdmin root@localhost112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138
After you have added the host(s), save the file. At this point, you will need to add the appropriate records to your DNS server to make these domains reachable by anyone on the network. If you have no access to a DNS server (BIND9), or you just want to test the configuration, just edit your /etc/hosts file. Here is what my file looks like:
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Once hosts is saved you just restart your server and everything should work without a problem
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webscriptz 11:47 on 30/03/2011 Permalink |
This is if you have a server distribution installed on a laptop like I do for development purposes.
Note that this works best with a server distribution because,if you take, for instance the Ubuntu desktop edition an make a webserver for development purposes you will have disable NetworkManager
or each time you connect to a different network rewrite the /etc/hosts to be able to access your websites via the link specified by you.
Fedora, RHEL and centOS use /etc/resolv.conf for the IP-address currently used by the PC where Ubuntu for instance use /etc/hosts and thus rewrites it as soon as you change from network.
webscriptz 23:09 on 30/03/2011 Permalink |
A friend pointed out that When in production you should patch the server, here’s a good article describing howto: http://mitka.us/articles/mpm-itk/