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Apache gives an error of AH00526 (restart)

Posted on November 22, 2014

The error massage that I get when I try to restart apache

AH00526: Syntax error on line 20 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/zzz-deny-generic.conf: Invalid ServerName “*” use ServerAlias to set multiple server names. Action ‘configtest’ failed. The Apache error log may have more information.

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i have the similar trouble. AH00256: Syntax error on line 43 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf: Invalid command ‘Order’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not incluided in the server configuration

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# zzz-deny-generic
#
# (c) Chris Stephenson 2014
#
# Licensed under GNU Public License v3 or later
#
# No warranty explicit or implied that this script is fit for purpose or even that it will not harm your computer
#
# This is the belt to default’s braces
# It tries to explicitly match any stray virtual host requests and deny them
# Not foolproof and needs to be done again for each ip on the server
# I couldn’t find a better way.
# Insert the correct IP in the VirtualHost line. If there is more than one IP on the server, repeat the
# whole VirtualHost block with that IP at the beginning.
#
#
<VirtualHost _IP_:80>
# match just about anything
ServerName *
ServerAlias *.*
ServerAlias *.*.*
ServerAlias *.*.*.*
ServerAlias *.*.*.*.*
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/
# ban any access
<Directory />
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
deny 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>

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