I am trying to host multiple different rails apps on the same VPS using multiple domains. I am using Apache 2.2.17 on Ubuntu 10.10 using the latest version of Passenger. For Apache, I have multiple vhost files so that I can enable and disable particular sites easily without needing to comment them out or delete them. In addition, I am also using mod_rewrite so that the multiple domains that go to the same rails app appear to go to the same URL so I don't take a hit with search engines as far as duplicate content.
I believe that my DNS is setup properly. For each of the domains, I have a www subdomain as well as some site-specific sub-domains, such as blogs, etc. The issue I am seeing is that Apache appears to matching the www subdomain immediately and not examining the additional URL behind it. Changing ServerAlias does nothing. For example, using my setup, if I enter davidheartsrachel.com, I properly reach my wedding website. However, if I use
www.davidheartsrachel.com, I reach my other website, my software development business. The URL is not re-written; it stays as davidheartsrachel.com instead of afewguyscoding.com.
The only way I have been able to properly get it to work is to use mod_rewrite in the primary vhost file to redirect to the wedding website vhost file (you can see that I have that in the primary vhost file, but it is commented out for purposes of this question). This doesn't seem proper to me? Should I get another IP and do IP vhosts instead of name-based vhosts?
When I execute
apachectl -S, I get the following:
Code:
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server afewguyscoding.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/afewguyscoding.com:1)
port 80 namevhost afewguyscoding.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/afewguyscoding.com:1)
port 80 namevhost blog.afewguyscoding.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/afewguyscoding.com:69)
port 80 namevhost davidheartsrachel.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/davidheartsrachel.com:1)
Syntax OK
I notice that afewguyscoding.com is the default site - however, doesn't it have to do a full string match to determine the proper site?
In my /etc/hosts file, I have this:Code:
127.0.0.1 localhost
72.14.183.14 www.afewguyscoding.com plato
#72.14.183.14 davidstites.com plato
#72.14.183.14 5280software.com plato
#72.14.183.14 milehigh-software.com plato
#72.14.183.14 milehighsoftware.org plato
#72.14.183.14 rachelanddavid.net plato
#72.14.183.14 rachelanddavidstites.com plato
#72.14.183.14 rachelanddavidwedding.com plato
72.14.183.14 www.davidheartsrachel.com plato
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
When I run hostname and hostname -f, I get the following (respectively):Code:
# hostname
plato
# hostname -f
www.afewguyscoding.com
Primary site's vhost fileCode:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin david.stites@afewguyscoding.com
ServerName afewguyscoding.com
ServerAlias davidstites.com, 5280software.com, milehigh-software.com, milehighsoftware.org
ServerAlias www.5280software.com, www.milehigh-software.com, www.milehighsoftware.org, www.davidstites.com, www.afewguyscoding.com
# this tells rails that it will run in production mode
# this is for rails < 3.x
RailsEnv production
DocumentRoot /var/www/afewguyscoding/current/public
DirectoryIndex index.html
# custom log file locations
# possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel alert
ErrorLog /var/www/afewguyscoding/current/log/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/afewguyscoding/current/log/access.log combined
# allows compression of text based mime.types
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
FileETag None
<Directory /var/www/afewguyscoding/current/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
<Location /blog>
PassengerEnabled off
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin info@afewguyscoding.com
ServerName blog.afewguyscoding.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/wpress
DirectoryIndex index.php
<Directory /var/www/wpress/current/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Wedding site's vhost fileCode:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin info@davidheartsrachel.com
ServerName davidheartsrachel.com
ServerAlias rachelanddavid.net, rachelanddavidstites.com, rachelanddavidwedding.com
ServerAlias www.davidheartsrachel.com, www.rachelanddavidstites.com, www.rachelanddavidwedding.com, www.rachelanddavid.net
# this tells rails that it will run in production mode
# this is for rails < 3.x
RailsEnv production
# this is for rails >= 3.x
RackEnv production
DocumentRoot /var/www/davidheartsrachel/current/public
DirectoryIndex index.html
# Custom log file locations
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, alert and emerg,
LogLevel alert
ErrorLog /var/www/davidheartsrachel/current/log/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/davidheartsrachel/current/log/access.log combined
# Allows compression of text based mime types
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
FileETag None
<Directory /var/www/davidheartsrachel/current/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
If you can think of any more information that might be helpful, please, ask me to post it.
Edit:Let me try to clear this up. In the most essential form, my question is: why does going to
davidheartsrachel.com takes you to
www.afewguyscoding.com and
davidheartsrachel.com takes you to
davidheartsrachel.com based on my configuration above
Edit 2:Here is my
apache2.conf file:
Code:
#
ServerRoot "/etc/apache2"
#<IfModule !mpm_winnt.c>
#<IfModule !mpm_netware.c>
LockFile /var/lock/apache2/accept.lock
#</IfModule>
#</IfModule>
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>
<IfModule mpm_worker_module>
StartServers 2
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadLimit 64
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>
<IfModule mpm_event_module>
StartServers 2
MaxClients 150
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadLimit 64
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>
# These need to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
DefaultType text/plain
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
LogLevel warn
# Include module configuration:
Include /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/*.load
Include /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/*.conf
# Include all the user configurations:
Include /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
# Include ports listing
Include /etc/apache2/ports.conf
LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log vhost_combined
Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/
Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
#ServerName afewguyscoding.com
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.9/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.9
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8
PassengerDefaultUser www-data
I am fairly sure that my DNS is configured properly. Here are my zone files.
Code:
; afewguyscoding.com [73015]
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns1.linode.com. david\.stites.afewguyscoding.com. 2011062863 14400 14400 1209600 86400
@ NS ns1.linode.com.
@ NS ns2.linode.com.
@ NS ns3.linode.com.
@ NS ns4.linode.com.
@ NS ns5.linode.com.
@ MX 10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@ MX 20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@ MX 20 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@ MX 30 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ MX 30 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ MX 30 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ MX 30 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ A 72.14.183.14
blog A 72.14.183.14
clients A 72.14.183.14
coupious A 72.14.183.14
lbbs A 72.14.183.14
staging A 72.14.183.14
www A 72.14.183.14
webmail CNAME ghs.google.com.
; davidheartsrachel.com [200479]
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns1.linode.com. david\.stites.afewguyscoding.com. 2011062862 14400 14400 1209600 86400
@ NS ns1.linode.com.
@ NS ns2.linode.com.
@ NS ns3.linode.com.
@ NS ns4.linode.com.
@ NS ns5.linode.com.
@ MX 10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@ MX 20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@ MX 20 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
@ MX 30 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ MX 30 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ MX 30 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ MX 30 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@ A 72.14.183.14
blog A 72.14.183.14
staging A 72.14.183.14
www A 72.14.183.14
webmail CNAME ghs.google.com.
One thing to note is that I have not tried using nginx instead of Apache to see if I get the same behavior.
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