[CentOS] Virtualhost, Alias & Subdomains

Dave Hornford dave.hornford at hornfordassociates.com
Fri Jun 9 22:32:58 UTC 2006


-----Original Message-----
From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell at gmail.com] 
Sent: June 9, 2006 4:29 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: RE: [CentOS] Virtualhost, Alias & Subdomains

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 16:12 -0600, Dave Hornford wrote:

> > The name as used in the browser URL must match exactly what you 
> > specify as the ServerName or a ServerAlias (you can have more than one
name there).
> > Are you sure everything is spelled exactly right and you didn't omit 
> > the domain name in the browser?  The first one in the list is used 
> > if nothing matches.
> s,
> 
> Thanks. In my testing I'm copying & pasting. I am getting the first in 
> the list.
> You mention more than one.
> 
> Could I skip the alias part and enter:
> ServerName www.subdomain.domain.com subdomain.domain.com 
> subdomain.altdomain.com www.subdomain.altdomain.com

No, ServerName may also be used in redirects so it is a special case.
Do you have DNS working so all the names resolve to the same IP?  For
testing you can use the hosts file on the machine running the browser to get
the same effect.

--
Les,
Thanks. It seemed to easy. It looks like I may have a dns propagation
problem. I am directed to the server and server is being directed to the old
host.

Dave




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