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Why is my Apache VirtualHost directing to the wrong VirtualHost?

Posted November 24, 2020 1.2k views
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On an existing wordpress-installed droplet, I am installing a new wordpress instance (two wordpress installs in same droplet).

To do so, I followed the answer by ryanpq on this thread: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/is-it-possible-to-install-another-wordpress-on-droplet

Similar to the commenters on that thread, my newer site redirects to my existing site (even after changing the DocumentRoot and Directory appropriately).

Here are my configs:

Within /etc/apache2/sites-enabled, I have 4 files: 000-default-le-ssl.conf 000-default.conf example1.conf example2.conf

000-default.conf andexample1.conf` are copies.

example1.conf looks like so: 


# Added to mitigate CVE-2017-8295 vulnerability
UseCanonicalName On

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        ServerName example1.io
        ServerAlias www.example1.io

        DocumentRoot /var/www/html

        <Directory /var/www/html/>
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
            Require all granted
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.example1.io [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =example1.io
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]

example2.conf looks like so: 

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@example2.com

        ServerName example2.com
        ServerAlias www.example2.com

        DocumentRoot /var/www/example2

        <Directory /var/www/example2/>
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride All
            Require all granted
        </Directory>

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

my directory structure looks like /var/www/html and /var/www/example2

Within the control panel of my DO account, I created a new project for my newly acquired domain name.

I created new A and CNAME records. The A record points to the IP address of the older, existing, site (so, example2.com directs to 128....)

Additional: I noticed while following the user ryanpq’s answer, that the wordpress install I did only had a wp-config-sample.php, so I copied that file, named it wp-config.php and filled it in with the database info.

What am I missing?

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bobbyiliev November 24, 2020

Hi there @theindiman,

The configuration looks all correct. It is possible that the permissions of the /var/www/example2 are not correct. What you need to do is make sure that the Apache user has read and write permissions to that folder:

  • sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/example2

Also I could suggest checking your Apache error log for more information:

  • sudo tail -100 /var/log/apache2/error.log

And one more thing, is the example2com site a copy of the original site or a fresh new WordPress installation?

Regards,
Bobby

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  • theindiman November 24, 2020

    Thank you for the response.

    the particular chmod command you gave as an example did returns chmod: invalid mode: ‘www-data:www-data’

    But I did run this: chown -Rf www-data.www-data /var/www/example2; from the linked thread.

    The error log does not return anything out of the ordinary: 

    [Tue Nov 24 07:54:32.597219 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1520] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Tue Nov 24 07:57:18.638256 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1520] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Tue Nov 24 07:57:18.776831 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1566] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.1.1d configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Nov 24 07:57:18.776923 2020] [core:notice] [pid 1566] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'

    For the WP install, I followed these instructions also from the linked thread: 

    mkdir /var/www/wordpress2;
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz -O /tmp/wordpress.tar.gz;
tar -zxf /tmp/wordpress.tar.gz  -C /tmp;
mv -f /tmp/wordpress/* /var/www/wordpress2;

    so, a fresh installation. Still no luck.

    Additional info: I bought the new domain name a few hours ago.. It isn’t likely that that’s the reason, is it? I would imagine I wouldn’t be getting a redirect if the reason was due to unpropogated domain.

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    • bobbyiliev November 25, 2020

      Hi there @theindiman,

      The command needs to be chown rather than chmod:

      • sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/example2

      The chown command changes the owner and the group of the files and folders, and the chmod changes the permissions.

      Let me know how it goes!
      Regards,
      Bobby

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  • theindiman November 24, 2020

    I just checked error log again, and got something new: 

    [Tue Nov 24 12:53:53.100835 2020] [authz_core:error] [pid 1690] [client 207.244.246.67:37058] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/.htaccess.bak
[Tue Nov 24 12:53:53.240080 2020] [authz_core:error] [pid 1692] [client 207.244.246.67:37064] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/.htaccess.sample
[Tue Nov 24 12:53:53.378340 2020] [authz_core:error] [pid 1691] [client 207.244.246.67:37072] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/.htaccess
[Tue Nov 24 12:53:53.518986 2020] [authz_core:error] [pid 1998] [client 207.244.246.67:37086] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/.htpasswd

    My .htaccess was last modified for my original site: example1.

    Here’s the .htaccess: 

    # BEGIN WpFastestCache
# Modified Time: 03-09-20 6:22:49
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example1.io
# Start WPFC Exclude
# End WPFC Exclude
# Start_WPFC_Exclude_Admin_Cookie
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !wordpress_logged_in_[^\=]+\=simon
# End_WPFC_Exclude_Admin_Cookie
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example1.io
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(facebookexternalhit|WP_FASTEST_CACHE_CSS_VALIDATOR|Twitterbot|LinkedInBot|WhatsApp|Mediatoolkitbot)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(WP\sFastest\sCache\sPreload(\siPhone\sMobile)?\s*Bot)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\/){2}$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.+
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !wordpress_logged_in
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !comment_author_
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !safirmobilswitcher=mobil
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/all/$1/index.html -f [or]
RewriteCond /var/www/html/wp-content/cache/all/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) "/wp-content/cache/all/$1/index.html" [L]
</IfModule>
<FilesMatch "index\.(html|htm)$">
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
FileETag None
Header unset ETag
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
Header set Pragma "no-cache"
Header set Expires "Mon, 29 Oct 1923 20:30:00 GMT"
</ifModule>
</FilesMatch>
# END WpFastestCache

# BEGIN WordPress
# The directives (lines) between "BEGIN WordPress" and "END WordPress" are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

    These settings are, I’m assuming, for example1 since they were only modified after example1.io and before I installed example2.com

    Could this have anyhting to do with my problems?

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