Ok........... I got apache working fine for my main vhost www.nodewide.com......... which points to /var/www


I setup a second vhost for www.empirequest.co.uk and pointed it to /home/Chien/www

the issue is the vhost isnt working..... for whatever reason when I go to www.empirequest.co.uk it just directs me to the main vhost.

Did your restart Apache?

Yep.... sure did

* Reloading web server config apache2 [Sat Sep 04 06:12:43 2010] [warn] VirtualHost www.empirequest.co.uk:80 overlaps with VirtualHost forums.empirequest.co.uk:80, the first has precedence, perhaps you need a NameVirtualHost directive
[Sat Sep 04 06:12:43 2010] [warn] VirtualHost www.nodewide.com:80 overlaps with VirtualHost www.empirequest.co.uk:80, the first has precedence, perhaps you need a NameVirtualHost directive

Ok I've never used webin to set up apache but "Handles the name-based server on address *" doesn't quite look right.

Make sure you have NameVirtualHost directives for *:80 in your httpd.conf

How do I setup these directives?

You might have better luck posting on the webmin forum

http://sourceforge.net/projects/webadmi ... rum/600155

I'm guessing almost everyone here at Linode runs their server via the shell.

I know how to do things via shelll I just am not familiar with setting up vhosts by shell.

I looked at /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

and it is totally empty which I think is odd.....

I then had a look in.....
/etc/apache2/sites-available

and

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled

And based on the files located in these paths there is only one vhost setup.....

Just added the following to the httpd.conf


<Directory "/home/bkerensa/www">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName clients.nodewide.com
ServerAlias clients.nodewide.com
DocumentRoot /home/bkerensa/www/client-area/
UseCanonicalName off

<Directory /home/bkerensa/www/client-area">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.empirequest.co.uk
DocumentRoot /home/Chien/www/
UseCanonicalName off

<Directory "/home/Chien/www">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName forums.empirequest.co.uk
DocumentRoot /home/Chien/www/forums/
UseCanonicalName off

<Directory "/home/Chien/www/forums">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>




Does this look fine?

Checking the Linode library or spending 5 minutes with Google brings up lots and lots and lots of VHOST examples.

Choose either webmin OR shell trying both will just cause headaches.