Help in setting up one http server for two different domains

[Jim Christiansen]

Thanks for the help to both of you,

I've got both sites up now.

Jim


 > > Hello,  I've got a server that is currently serving one website with a
 > > registered domain and dns.  I would like to use the same server to also
 > > serve another domain.  Reading about name-based virtual hosting at
 > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/vhosts/name-based.html I can't seem to
 > > get the second url to load- I keep getting the same first domain's
 > > webpage.  The path for the first domain is from /var/www/html.  The 
path
 > > for the second domain is set right now to  
/var/www/html/seconddomain...
 > >
 > > So anywhoooo...  Comments???
 > >
 > > Thanks,
 > >
 > > Jim
 > >
 > >
 > This is how I would do it.
 > Main domain would be setup at /var/www/html/firstdomain
 > and the second /var/www/html/seconddomain
 >
 > <VirtualHost *:80>
 > 	ServerAdmin email at email.com
 > 	DocumentRoot /var/www/html/firstdomain
 > 	ServerName firstdomain.com
 > 	ServerAlias www.firstdomain.com
 > 	ErrorLog logs/firstdomain-error_log
 > 	CustomLog logs/firstdomain-access_log common
 > </VirtualHost>
 >
 > <VirtualHost *:80>
 > 	ServerAdmin email at email.com
 > 	DocumentRoot /var/www/html/seconddomain
 > 	ServerName seconddomain.com
 > 	ServerAlias www.firstdomain.com
 > 	ErrorLog logs/seconddomain-error_log
 > 	CustomLog logs/seconddomain-access_log common
 > </VirtualHost>
 >
 > Hope this helps

Note that you need a:
NameVirtualHost *:80
in the global section above those to make it work.  (And
fix the typo in the second ServerAlias).  Also you can
add additional names in the ServerAlias entry if you want.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com