Apache Virtual Host Configuration

Notes on how I usually do it, on Fedora.

• The interesting directory is /etc/httpd/conf.d
• One virtual host (and its aliases), per file
• Files get processed in alpha order
• use #-sign for comments

in the default httpd.conf (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf)

     # note: usually this is just turned off (commented out)...

     # Use name-based virtual hosting.
     #
     #NameVirtualHost *:80
     NameVirtualHost *:80

"default" host (zzvh.aaa.conf)

    # remember that ServerName/ServerAlias must be resolvable (DNS or hosts)

    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName example.com
        ServerAdmin nobody@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
    </VirtualHost>

all other hosts (zzvh.someserver.conf)

    # this is the "normal", useful part
    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName someserver.example.com
        ServerAdmin root@someserver.example.com
        DocumentRoot /home/someserver/www
        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/someserver/cgi-bin/
    </VirtualHost>

    # this bit makes the homepage of www.blah.com equal blah.com
    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName www.someserver.example.com
        Redirect permanent / http://someserver.example.com
    </VirtualHost>

    # this bit makes blah.net and www.blah.net equal blah.com
    # probably a cleaner way to do it, though
    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName someserver.example.net
        ServerAlias www.someserver.example.net
        ServerAdmin root@someserver.example.com
        DocumentRoot /home/someserver/www
        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/someserver/cgi-bin/
        RedirectMatch /(.*) http://someserver.example.com/$1
    </VirtualHost>