Ubuntu 12.10 virtualhost conflict

Question

I have two sites on my server. One I access via my IP, x.x.x.x/site1. The other is a registered domain name, www.mysite.com.

Initially, I had only my /etc/apache/sites-available/default file available but when I tried loading either of the sites above I just got my /var/www/index.html output.

I included a new virtualhost for mysite.com with the following code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/mysite>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
            AllowOverride None
            Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Mysite.com only loads when default is disabled but then, x.x.x.x/site1 doesn't.

So, I enable the default virtualhost which has the following code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride None
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
            AllowOverride None
            Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Now, x.x.x.x/site1 works but mysite.com does not - instead it loads the /var/www/index.html page.

I'm confused about what the issue is.

Answer 1

In your vhost configuratin for mysite.com you need to add the ServerName directive:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName mysite.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite

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