Apache2 - Vhost keep redirect to https vhost, and not the request vhost

October 10, 2013 19.5k views
Geekologist
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i am facing an issue with my vHost setup which I rly can't figure out how to fix First my vhost config: ServerName dnsmaster.*****.com:80 DocumentRoot /var/www/dns Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all 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 ServerName chat.*****.com:443 DocumentRoot /var/www/chat Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all 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 SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key Both vHost are located in the default file (000-default) - Also this is all there is in that file. The first vHost works fine, and are also working with SSL/HTTPS but when I try to go to second vHost, then it redirects me to the first one. I've never faced this problem before, and have been setting a few vHosts up in the past. But never 2 vHost where one is HTTPS and the other is HTTP also this is the ports.conf: (default) NameVirtualHost *:80 Listen 80 NameVirtualHost *:443 Listen 443 Listen 443
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15 Answers
pablo October 10, 2013
Have you followed the steps outlined in this guide: How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Also, make sure you have the mod_ssl module enabled. See HTTPS Configuration.
How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
by Etel Sverdlov
This tutorial shows you how to set up a new directory, how to grant the correct permissions, how to add content to a new page, how to turn on virtual hosting, and how to, if needed, set up local hosts. Virtual Hosts are used to run more than one domain off of a single IP address and allows you to run multiple sites off of a single DigitalOcean droplet. This tutorial describes how to set up virtual hosts with Apache.
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Geekologist October 10, 2013
Hello Pablo,

Yes, all that is done :)
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pablo October 11, 2013
Hmm... in what directory did you save your SSL certificate? Also, I wonder if the "*" in NameVirtualHost *:443 needs to be changed to the FQDN or IP address assigned to your SSL certificate?
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Geekologist October 11, 2013
Hello Pablo,

I've tried editing the NameVirtualHost *:443 to both IP and FQDN, didn't work either.
They are saved in /etc/apache2/ssl/
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Geekologist October 11, 2013
The problem isn't the HTTPS/SSL Site, the problem is the non-sll/HTTP site, if I go to that one, it redirects me to the HTPPS/SSL site
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pablo October 11, 2013
Why not separate the two vHosts, instead of having them in the same 000-default file?
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Geekologist October 11, 2013
Because that doesn't work either :/
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kamaln7 MOD October 12, 2013
What happens when you visit:

  1. http://chat.***.com
  2. https://chat.***.com
  3. http://dnsmaster.***.com
  4. https://dnsmaster.***.com
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Geekologist October 12, 2013
Hello Kamal,

All 4 goes to https//chat.****.com
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Geekologist October 12, 2013
forgot:

If I go to #4 https://dnsmaster.***.com - the URL is then still https://dnsmaster.***.com, but still goes to chat.****.com site
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kamaln7 MOD October 13, 2013 
If I go to #4 https://dnsmaster.***.com - the URL is then still https://dnsmaster.***.com, but still goes to chat.****.com site


That is expected since the only virtualhost listening on 443 is chat.*** so you cannot prevent that unless you move it to a separate droplet.

Does http://dnsmaster.*** work normally?
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Geekologist October 14, 2013
No, when I go to http://dnsmaster.***, I get redirected to https.chat.***. that's the problem
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pablo October 14, 2013
What's the output of ls -la /var/www/?
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Geekologist October 14, 2013
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 12 14:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Oct 10 14:59 ..
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Oct 11 15:46 chat
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 10 17:10 dns
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 Oct 12 11:06 index.php
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aveeshkumar May 14, 2014
Hi,

Did you get this resolved? I am having the same problem and was wondering how you got it to work
For me
- http://www.site1.com works (site1.conf)
- https://www.site2.com works (default-ssl conf)
- http://www.site3.com works (site2.conf)
BUT
- http:///www.site4.com redirects to https://www.site2.com (site3.conf)

I cant figure out what the difference is between site3.conf and site2.conf - other than document root....

No help in the log files - have rebooted -



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  • yannick.warnier February 10, 2016

    Same issue here with Apache 2.4 on Ubuntu.
    When one HTTPS vhost is defined, all HTTP vhosts redirect to that single HTTPS vhost (or the first one available in alphabetical order of files in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ if multiple HTTPS vhosts exist).
    I don’t use NameVirtualHost because Apache 2.4 reports this is useless and deprecated.
    My vhosts all start with <VirtualHost *:80> or <VirtualHost *:443>.

    There’s a similar issue here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32194522/httpd-redirects-with-ssl-and-subdomains-vhosts but it’s supposedly solved by using NameVirtualHost, which I cannot use with Apache 2.4.

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