Multiple Vhosts Behind A Router Options

[Corey]

I'm not sure if anyone else has ever had a problem with this, but I did, so i expect that someone else out there might run into it at some point.

My network setup includes a linksys router connected directly to the internet using a pppoe internet connection. I have a dynamic IP and thanks to hughsjr's scripts (see Server on a Non-static IP) my ip is constantly updated with my domain.

On my router, I have port 80 being forwarded from the router to my internet webserver (192.168.0.2).

Currently I have www.thegoodtimes.ca and sober.thegoodtimes.ca setup, using apache 1.3.x, here is my virtual host settings at the bottom of my /etc/apache/httpd.conf file:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName www.thegoodtimes.ca
  ServerAlias thegoodtimes.ca
  DocumentRoot /var/www
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName sober.thegoodtimes.ca
  DocumentRoot /home/blew/public_html
</VirtualHost>

Obviously I can add more options to the VirtualHost directives, but using this bare minimum made it work.

[hughesjr]

Corey ...

If you want to keep seperate stats for each site, then you will probably want customlogs for each site.

Here is what I did with logs in my VirtualHost

CODE

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName www.hughesjr.com
   ServerAlias hughesjr.com
   DocumentRoot /var/www/hughesjr.com
   ErrorLog logs/hughesjr.com-error_log
   CustomLog logs/hughesjr.com-access_log combined
   <Directory "/var/www/hughesjr.com">
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then I run analog seperately on each set of log files.

Another thing aboutlog stats is you probably want to use the combined log type and not the common log type ... if combined is defined in your /etc/httpd.conf file ... for me it is:

CODE

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

and I use CustomLog path_to_file combined
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I also edited the scripts in Server On A Non-static Ip to have both an option for an external router ... or if you are running on a linux router.

[Corey]

Yeah, I knew you could have custom log files, which I do have setup, but I just wanted to post the bare minimum for getting the multiple vhosts working correctly.

Those scripts you wrote are really helpfull and are working perfectly for me Thanks.