The following reply was made to PR general/1247; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rodent of Unusual Size)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Subject: Re: general/1247: Main server configuration & VirtualHosts are
botched
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 10:32:40 -0400
From the fingers of JDC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flowed the following:
>
>> In the meantime, try putting these TWO LINES in front of all your
>> <VirtualHost> containers:
>>
>> LogLevel debug
>> NameVirtualHost 206.190.135.249
As was pointed out, I phrased this poorly. I meant "put this in
your file ONCE, before any <VirtualHost> container," *not* "put this
in front of EACH <VirtualHost>." Sorry about the confusion.
> This results in quite a lot of logging -- as well as all of the
> VirtualHosts working (!!).
Good. Can you send along some of the 'lots of logging' messages?
Are they talking about overlaps?
> However, there is one catch:
>
> Any hosts defined outside of the <VirtualHost> directive,
> such as the default server configuration (ServerName, etc.),
> are ignored, and end up bringing up the page for the very
> first <VirtualHost> defined.
Erm, there's only *one* server defined outside the
<VirtualHost> containers - the default or "main" server.
Try listing the main server's details inside its own <VirtualHost>
container, and changing the global ServerName to "localhost". That
way, *all* of your working servers should be defined by
<VirtualHost> blocks, including the main one.
> 1) Could the mod_status module be written so that visiting
> a name-based VirtualHost returns ONLY the entries for that
> VirtualHost being visited by outside users? Right now,
> it results in showing *ALL* sites.
This is work on the table for a future release, but I don't think
there's a PR for it.
> 2) Stronghold has the wonderful ability to give additional out-
> put regarding if a HTML file is not found, or other errors.
> An example:
>
>File Not Found
>
>The requested URL /blah was not found on this server.
>
>There was also some additional information available about the error:
>[Sat Oct 18 11:59:22 1997] access to /var/www/docs/blah failed for
>albany-pm2-5.dnc.net,
>reason: File does not exist
>
> Could this feature be implemented into Apache? This has got
> to be one of the best features of Stronghold I have seen:
> I guarentee users all over the place would really enjoy
> knowing what the actual error was.
This was also reported recently. Would you please enter two
separate "non-critical" "change-request" PRs for these? That will
help ensure that they don't get forgotten, the way private mail
might or if they're encapsulated inside another PR as they are now.
Thanks for the additional information; let us know what the log
messages say and whether the change above helps.
Oh, and by the way - NameVirtualHost should appear *once* for each
IP address that has multiple name-vhosts on it, and these
occurrences of NameVirtualHost should be before and outside any
<VirtualHost> containers.
#ken P-)}
