[ILUG] Re: apache mod_vhost_alias and normal vhosts

[Stephen Shirley]

*sigh* I've found the problem, and have a solution. It's not pretty.
What happens is this (despite the fact that it makes no sense to do so
because we're using mod_vhost_alias): Because there is no ServerName
entry in the first <VirtualHost>, apache will do a reverse dns lookup
on the ip supplied, and use that instead. As that ip resolves to
'ja.ichbinn.net', the first vhost will _always_ match it.

With that in mind, the solution is this: add a bogus ServerName entry
to the <VirtualHost>. Apache doesn't seem to care if it resolves or
not, so i've gone with the following (repeating the whole config again
for clarity):

-------------------------------8<--------------------------
NameVirtualHost 213.239.204.216:80

<VirtualHost 213.239.204.216:80>
   ServerName somethingwhichdoesntexist.ichbinn.net
    VirtualDocumentRoot /srv/%1/public_html
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 213.239.204.216:80>
    ServerName www.ichbinn.net
    ServerAlias ichbinn.net ja.ichbinn.net
    DocumentRoot /var/www/
</VirtualHost>
------------------------------->8--------------------------

Et voila, though ugly, it works. Thanks to madduck for pointing out
what was going wrong.

Steve
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