On Mon, November 13, 2017 15:54, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Walter H. > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 4:32 AM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] Strrange behavior of VirtualHosts in Apache (CentOS6) > >> Hello, >> >> there is a short explanation about virtual hosts in Apache ... >> https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDefault > > That page has not been updated since 2009, while it may be correct > there is no reason not to use the correct documentation, the section > of interest is short: > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/name-based.html >> <VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80> >> ServerName host.example.org >> DocumentRoot /var/www/default >> </VirtualHost> > > So this becomes your default vhost when a match is not found and explains > why the php file is invoked when the order of specificity falls through. > >> http://mail.example.org/ <-- works >> http://smtp.example.org/ <-- doen't work >> http://smtp.example.org/host.php <-- gives the HTTP_HOST (PHP-script), >> but why? >> >> http://www.example.com/ <-- works >> http://hello.example.com/ <-- doesn't work >> http://hello.example.com/host.php <-- gives the HTTP_HOST (PHP-script), >> but why? > > Do you have the correct ip address in your vhost config? yes > I would > bet if you read the log, you will see what is happening and how it differs > from > what you expect. not really, the strange thing was something different; httpd -S lists all vhosts, and at last 'Syntax OK' and exact this was the strange; I'm used to add the port number to ServerAlias and this was the mistake ... httpd -S, didn't realize this I removed the port numbers from ServerAlias entries and now it works :-) > Some more in-depth details at > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/details.html Greetings, Walter