I am a pretty green linux guy but am really stumped on a virtual hosts issue. I have scoured the forums looking for an answer with no luck.

I have 2 domains, delicatefade.net and mikemcbrien.com pointing to the same debian apache2. For the life of me i cannot get mikemcbrien.com to resolve.

lslookup point to my ip (172.230.136.117) for all domains (a sub domain for mikemcbrien.com included) So that indicates teh DNS is correct, so I looked into the host file. I have a2dissite & a2ensite & reloaded apache, even tried disabling delicatefade.net and only enabling mikemcbrien.com and still no luck. The only site I can get to work is the delicatefade.net site.

//apache2ctl -S //

VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server delicatefade.net (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/delicatefade.net:1)
         port 80 namevhost delicatefade.net (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/delicatefade.net:1)
         port 80 namevhost mikemcbrien.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/lhcf.mikemcbrien.com:1)
Syntax OK

//checking for multiple namevirtual host entries///

root@li176-117:~# grep -rli "namevirtualhost" *
ssinclude-1

I have attempted setting the * in my virtual hosts file as my linodes IP (172.23.136.117) however that did not work and here is my current virtual hosts files...

//mikemcbrien.com virtual hosts file found in the site-available folder //

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName mikemcbrien.com
    DocumentRoot /srv/www/mikemcbrien.com/public_html/
    ErrorLog /srv/www/mikemcbrien.com/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /srv/www/mikemcbrien.com/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

//delicatefade.net virtual hosts file found in sites available folder //

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName delicatefade.net
    DocumentRoot /srv/www/delicatefade.net/public_html/
    ErrorLog /srv/www/delicatefade.net/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /srv/www/delicatefade.net/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated, i have spent four hours trying to get it working oi.

Thanks.

I think it's a network problem (not yours). I can ping delicatefade.net but not to mikemcbrien.com, even they are resolved to same IP.

From my London Linode:

traceroute delicatefade.net:

traceroute to delicatefade.net (173.230.136.117), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  212.111.33.229 (212.111.33.229)  0.601 ms  0.635 ms  0.650 ms
 2  212.111.33.233 (212.111.33.233)  0.499 ms  0.534 ms  0.551 ms
 3  te3-1-border76-01.lon2.telecity.net (217.20.44.217)  0.724 ms * *
 4  * * *
 5  85.90.238.42 (85.90.238.42)  0.968 ms * *
 6  ldn-b2-link.telia.net (213.248.100.17)  0.651 ms  0.625 ms  0.600 ms
 7  ldn-bb2-link.telia.net (80.91.250.229)  0.690 ms  0.673 ms  0.707 ms
 8  ash-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.251.209)  76.495 ms  76.518 ms  76.501 ms
 9  atl-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.247.173)  90.088 ms  90.091 ms  90.081 ms
10  globalnet-127291-atl-bb1.c.telia.net (213.248.90.54)  91.019 ms  91.061 ms  91.124 ms
11  64.22.106.10 (64.22.106.10)  92.706 ms  92.719 ms  92.716 ms
12  173.230.136.117 (173.230.136.117)  91.033 ms  91.026 ms  90.968 ms

traceroute mikemcbrien.com:

traceroute to mikemcbrien.com (172.230.136.117), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  212.111.33.229 (212.111.33.229)  0.597 ms  0.635 ms  0.589 ms
 2  212.111.33.233 (212.111.33.233)  0.488 ms  0.497 ms  0.516 ms
 3  * * *
 4  85.90.238.45 (85.90.238.45)  2.194 ms * *
 5  195.50.113.1 (195.50.113.1)  0.747 ms !N  0.780 ms !N  0.763 ms !N

I don't know why this happen, but forget vhosts by now.

They are pointing to two different IPs:

delicatefade.net.   86400   IN   A   173.230.136.117
mikemcbrien.com.   86400   IN   A   172.230.136.117

I suspect you want for both of them to be 173.*.

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Oh wow, Thats a pretty bad mistake, I updated my dns and will let you know if that was indeed it once it resolves.

/me is embarressed.

That was it, thanks again for pointing out my typo.

Oh my... good catch! I read and re-read it and I didn't notice @_@

That makes me feel better (cause I looked at that a few time too and missed it)

Thank you for posting enough information to figure it out. I've been there more times than I care to admit...