Package: apache2 Version: 2.4.25-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
somewhere between 2.4.23-8 and 2.4.25-1 there was a regression that causes apache to ignore ServerName directives containing underscores. I have since tested and confirmed that removing the underscore fixes the problem as does installing version 2.4.10-10+deb8u7 There is nothing in the error log indicating a problem (Not surprising since it's not recognising the virtualhost at all) The site conf file: $ cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/kint_test.conf <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName kint_test.local ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /home/j/localhost/kint_test ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost> The folder in question: (chmod -R 777, and other sites under /home/j/localhost work fine so it's not a file permission issue) $ ls -l /home/j/localhost/kint_test total 8 -rwxrwxrwx 1 j j 0 Jan 14 11:18 index.html Relevant part of apache2.conf: <Directory /home/j/localhost> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require ip 192.168 Require local </Directory> Relevant part of hosts file: $ grep kint_test /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 kint_test.local Server response: $ curl kint_test.local <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>400 Bad Request</title> </head><body> <h1>Bad Request</h1> <p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br /> </p> <p>Additionally, a 400 Bad Request error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.4.25 (Debian) Server at 127.0.1.1 Port 80</address> </body></html> -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'testing'), (700, 'experimental'), (600, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apache2 depends on: ii apache2-bin 2.4.25-1 ii apache2-data 2.4.25-1 ii apache2-utils 2.4.25-1 ii dpkg 1.18.18 ii init-system-helpers 1.46 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii mime-support 3.60 ii perl 5.24.1~rc4-1 pn perl:any <none> ii procps 2:3.3.12-3 Versions of packages apache2 recommends: ii ssl-cert 1.0.38 Versions of packages apache2 suggests: ii apache2-doc 2.4.25-1 pn apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom <none> ii chromium [www-browser] 55.0.2883.75-2 ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 45.6.0esr-1 ii lynx [www-browser] 2.8.9dev11-1 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-34 Versions of packages apache2-bin depends on: ii libapr1 1.5.2-5 ii libaprutil1 1.5.4-3 ii libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 1.5.4-3 ii libaprutil1-ldap 1.5.4-3 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.44+dfsg-3 ii liblua5.2-0 5.2.4-1.1+b1 ii libnghttp2-14 1.18.1-1 ii libpcre3 2:8.39-2 ii libssl1.0.2 1.0.2j-5 ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1 pn perl:any <none> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-4 Versions of packages apache2-bin suggests: ii apache2-doc 2.4.25-1 pn apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom <none> ii chromium [www-browser] 55.0.2883.75-2 ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 45.6.0esr-1 ii lynx [www-browser] 2.8.9dev11-1 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-34 Versions of packages apache2 is related to: ii apache2 2.4.25-1 ii apache2-bin 2.4.25-1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf changed [not included] /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information