Apache – Name Virtual Host errors

Paul — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:12:55 +0000

For some time now apache has been bugging me that there is a configuration issue with my virtual hosts, so I decided to find out what the issue was and try to resolve it. As it happens the fix was easy but not well documented.

Issue:

[warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

Resolution:

You can resolve this by ensuring that you virtual hosts are configured correctly. To do this you should have a NameVirtualHost for each of your ports and then be using ServerName within each virtualhost. By configuring apache this way you allow it to correctly interpret requests for different virtual hosts on the same IP Address.

Example:

In my apache2.conf file I have the following declaration

NameVirtualHost *:80

And then each of the virtual hosts is configured:

RailsEnv beta

ServerName my-app.redjamjar.net

DocumentRoot /home/rails/beta/my-app/current/public

allow from all

AllowOverride All

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