howto serve different local index page with multiple virtualhosts

Question

Objective: do http://test.local and get the index from testsite, do http://l4.dev and serve the index from lara4.

What I don't want is the first index from the virtual host listing it can find

How should multiple local sites be managed? - best practice - (apache version 2.2)

This Is what I added to the httpd.config (is this the best way, - to add it directly to httpd.config?)

   NameVirtualHost *:80

 <VirtualHost *>  
    DocumentRoot "/Users/redres/Webdev/lara4"  
    ServerName l4.dev
    ServerAlias www.l4.dev
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>  
    DocumentRoot "/Users/redres/Webdev/testsite"  
    ServerName test.local
    ServerAlias www.test.local
</VirtualHost>  
<VirtualHost *>   
    DocumentRoot "/Users/redres/Webdev"  
    ServerName localhost  
</VirtualHost>   

<Directory "/Users/redres/Webdev">
    Options All
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from All
</Directory>

this is the hosts file

127.0.0.1   test.local
127.0.0.1   l4.dev
127.0.0.1   localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost

thanks

yes, but that only proves it takes the first vhost it finds, changed it to l4.dev — Richard, May 31 '13 at 08:52
possible duplicate of [Apache setup for multi-sites](http://serverfault.com/questions/279047/apache-setup-for-multi-sites) — Falcon Momot, May 31 '13 at 10:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 31 '13 at 07:45

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You need to tell Apache which virtual host should be used for a given domain name, by adding the additional hostname as a ServerAlias to the virtual host.

answered May 31 '13 at 07:45

Jenny D

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I did that just now, it did not work - still goes to folder lara4 – Richard May 31 '13 at 07:58
So post the new config and maybe someone can see what you did wrong. – Jenny D May 31 '13 at 08:04

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 31 '13 at 08:53

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You will need a NameVirtualHost directive:

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>  
    DocumentRoot "/Users/redres/Webdev/lara4"  
    ServerName l4.local
    ServerAlias www.l4.local
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>  
    DocumentRoot "/Users/redres/Webdev/testsite"  
    ServerName test.local
    ServerAlias www.test.local
</VirtualHost>  
<VirtualHost *>   
    DocumentRoot "/Users/redres/Webdev"  
    ServerName localhost  
</VirtualHost>   

<Directory "/Users/redres/Webdev">
    Options All
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from All
</Directory>

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/de/vhosts/name-based.html

answered May 31 '13 at 08:53

etagenklo

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I did that, quickly edited the question! - no luck – Richard May 31 '13 at 09:02
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You will have to do it exactly like I wrote. If you use `NameVirtualHost *:80`, you also have to use ``. – etagenklo May 31 '13 at 09:07
thanks, I just found out myself, but great fot noticing, it works now. Should I move this block to extra/httpd-vhosts.config? – Richard May 31 '13 at 09:14

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