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What is the best practice for redirecting the IP address of a web server when it hosts multiple domain names?
The answer is in the comment:
Hosting companies that offer shared accounts typically have a number of sites hosted all on the same IP address using virtual hosts as you've done.. They point the IP ...
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SSLCipherSuite settings not taking effect from Apache ssl.conf, only when duplicated in each virtual host
Just hit a possibly similar or identical issue though with me it was to update a clients SSL to drop TLSv1 and TLSv1.1 support.
The default way is edit ssl.conf and set:
SSLProtocol all -SSLv3 -TLSv1 -...
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Do I need to change the host file of each computer to share a web page on a local network using a hostname?
This depends on how your network is setup. If you have a central DNS server on your network (as many enterprise business networks have) then you can add a zone record for whatever domain you wish for ...
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How to remove port number from the URL?
Change the port number from 90 to 80 to remove it from the URL. The default port number for HTTP is port 80. If you use any other port number, that port number has to be specified in the URL.
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Have disabled apache site config file 000-default.conf, but it still seems active. Why?
I agree with user 'closetnoc' who replied at [2015-Aug-2 00:24:36Z] in response to the original post that wrote "The 000-default.conf site is a catch-all for any request the server does not have a ...
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How to install WAMP with multiple hosts on a non-standard port, over a FIOS connection?
I used Windows 10 PC with WAMP version 3.2.6_x64 (Apache 2.4.51)
The legacy server will continue to use port 80, and the new server will use port 8080
The following lists the several steps I used ...
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SSLCipherSuite settings not taking effect from Apache ssl.conf, only when duplicated in each virtual host
Just had the very same issue with my Apache 2.4 configuration on CentOS version 8.
We are all mistaken on the meaning of the _default_:443 host: this section does not contain the default settings for ...
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SSLCipherSuite settings not taking effect from Apache ssl.conf, only when duplicated in each virtual host
I had the same issue under CentOS 7 and Apache 2.4.6, and the fix was to move the SSLCipherSuite directive outside of the <VirtualHost _default_:443> in my SSL configuration file that I include ...
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How to Add Two Domains ON 1 IP using webmin
Open your webmin
Go to servers
Go to Apache Webserver
Create virtual host
Check if it works from Existing virtual hosts and it well look like below:
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What virtual host should I serve when someone hits my webserver without a "Host:" header?
Considering RFC-7230, you might just return 400 for such request:
A server MUST respond with a 400 (Bad Request) status code to any HTTP/1.1 request message that lacks a Host header field and to any ...
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Is this possible: Use css from other virtual host?
Yes, but as you already guessed you wouldn't be able to use relative paths because that would take you outside of the web root. You you would need to use the full URL to the CSS file to reference it ...
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Handling requests to server's IP address
If you have multiple virtual hosts / sites on the same server then you should either block any direct request for the server's IP address or serve some other "default" (noindex) web page, not ...
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how to modify virtualhost in WHM?
Cpanel/WHM does NOT support Ruby on Rails out the box, you need to provision the Ruby via mod_passenger profile under your EasyApache 4 and deploy each application from Cpanel Application Manager ...
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What is the best practice for redirecting the IP address of a web server when it hosts multiple domain names?
The answer to your question "What is the best practice for redirecting the IP address of a web server when it hosts multiple domain names?" is this: Best practice is to use a redirect (Apache) or ...
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Apache 2.4, trying to turn off DirectorySlash
Make sure your browser cache is cleared. DirectorySlash (mod_dir) adds the slash with a 301 redirect, so these will have been cached (hard) by the browser.
Incidentally, you can check where the slash ...
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Subdomains getting redirected to root directory of virtualhost
As mentioned in comments, I don't see any spurious redirects that you appear to be reporting and the two URLs do appear to return different content (although they "look similar"). So this appears to ...
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How can the index.html file be served from a sub directory of the DocumentRoot without using system level links?
You may want the mod_rewrite solution that @Stephen suggests, however, also consider DirectoryIndex (depending on your requirements).
The DirectoryIndex document tells Apache which file to serve when ...
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How to log in via ssh to a newly created virtual machine at Hetzner
So let my own answer be here (support helped me) - hopefully somebody else will find solution quicker. So, if you've created server with ssh key provided you won't get any password by e-mail. The ...
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How to log in via ssh to a newly created virtual machine at Hetzner
What helped me is connecting with user root: ssh root@YOURIP
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Creating new virtual server or Sub-server breaks all existing domains
RESOLVED
For now I have resolved the issue by editing, /etc/apache2/sites-available/xxxx.conf
The change I made in the first line, <VirtualHost 128.xxx.xxx.227:80> Changed it to, <...
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VirtualHosts Not Working - Apache - CentOS 6
First issue is that you've set both of your VirtualHost configs to use DocumentRoot /home/website/public_html -- one should be /home/webapp/public_html.
Next issue sounds like DNS, you mention adding ...
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How can the index.html file be served from a sub directory of the DocumentRoot without using system level links?
Your rewrite rule is close. You just need to restrict it a bit more.
RewriteRule ^\/?$ /html/index.html [L]
The \/ matches a literal slash, which is the desired URL for the home page. It is ...
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Should I use VPS IP addresses or VPS domain names in the DNS Settings?
Using A or CNAME records will have no effect on whether or not your site appears when you type in the IP address. Your site appears when you type in the IP address because every server MUST have an ...
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Individual directory options for every VirtualHost in Apache2
I just found a solution on my own.
I created two symlinks, both pointing to the desired folder. Then, I used one of them for the public VirtualHost and the other one for the private one. Works ...
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Put WAMP online but hide its server index page
the server's index file which shows the list of all the projects is also accessible. What I want is to be only able to view it from local machine, not from others. Others can only access the index ...
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Multiple PHP versions on one Digital Ocean droplet
You could consider PHPBrew:
https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew
There's an overview here of the process:
http://www.sivaschenko.com/multiple-php-versions-simultaneously-apache/
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I have three virtualhosts on my WAMP Stack, one works, the other gets 404'd
I would not recommend setting different DocumentRoots that are subdirectories of each other. Rather each site should have its own independent directory. I'd change your first virtual host to:
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Vhosts on Apache Web Server. All in one or in separate .confs
This is really personal preference. There are pros and cons to each. By putting them all in one file you have one place to look for configuration information. BY putting them in separate files, ...
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Domain redirection with virtualhost on cpanel environment
Have you used the options in the 'Redirects' section of cPanel?
You can add a Permanent(301) redirect for the www.
More info can be found here...
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Have disabled apache site config file 000-default.conf, but it still seems active. Why?
I have run a production Apache on FreeBSD since 1995 and recently was installing a LAMP Apache on Debian and ran across this a2dissite 000-default.conf command and so did some research. Personally, I ...
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