Hi,
I have been struggling on that one for a few days. I set up virtual hosts as per explained in various tutorial. I can access my website through the IP address but not the actual domain name.
Here is the Vhost:
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com
ServerAdmin aloysberger@gmail.com
ServerName aloys.dev
ServerAlias www.aloys.dev
DocumentRoot /var/www/aloys.dev/public_html
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>
If I go to the IP address http://161.35.30.115/ it works. But neither does http://aloys.dev or http://www.aloys.dev.
I used check-host and it looks like the DNS has propagated. If I check aloys.dev it redirects me to the right IP address…
I need help here!
Thank you!
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Hello, @aloysberger
Can you please check if Apache is running and also perform a restart as well? You can check if apache is running with this command:
systemctl status apache2
And also test it using netstat :
netstat -plunta | grep 80
If netstat is not installed you can install it using apt-get for Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install net-tools
To restart Apache run:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Everything looks good when I test it using curl or wget
domain.com!
Success! The domain.com virtual host is working!
The domain name is not loading via the browser. The DNS seems to be updated, but I’ve also tested this using a hosts file and the result was the same.
I will also double check the ownership and the permissions of the root dir for the domain and make sure that the virtual host file is enabled.
sudo a2ensite your_domain.conf
You can check the whole article here:
Let me know how it goes.
Regards, Alex
Hi Alex!
Still having the same issue despite following your advice…
This is the result of the netstat commande, if it may help.
root@aloys ~# netstat -plunta | grep 80
tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 23160/apache2
Also restarted/reload apache2, double checked the virtual host file is enable
sudo systemctl restart apache2
root@aloys ~# sudo a2ensite aloys.dev.conf
Site aloys.dev already enabled
Not sure I understand why you get domain.com when running the curl command? The actual index.html doesn’t mention domain.com?
I went through the guide mentionned, also I do not wish to install PHP/MySQL for now.
I double check also these commands:
root@aloys ~# sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default already disabled
root@aloys ~# sudo apache2ctl configtest
Syntax OK
root@aloys ~#
I am running out of ideas!
Thanks for your time mate, it is much appreciated.
Alright, so I found out that domain name .dev have issues with chrome.
I will post the answer once I found out how to make it work. But if you try to access the site from Firefox or Safari it does work.
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