Apache default VirtualHost

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How can I set a default VirtualHost in Apache  Preferably  I want the default host not to be the same as the IP address host  Now I have something like this  NameVirtualHost     lt VirtualHost   gt      ServerAdmin admin domain com     DocumentRoot  someOtherDir      ServerAlias ip of the server  lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   gt      ServerAdmin admin domain com     DocumentRoot  someroot      ServerAlias domain com   domain com  lt  VirtualHost   gt   If a domain is forwarded to my server  but isn t in this vhost conf file  the files from  someOtherDir  are loaded  as expected  But I want to be able to use a different root for the IP address itself and domains which aren t added to the vhost conf file  yet   Is this possible

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Obligatory - none of the previous answers worked for me. I inherited a strange combination of IP address-based virtual hosts and * vhosts (not assigned/catch all IP addresses) based virtual hosts in this Apache configuration messed up by ISPConfig.

I wanted Apache to serve not configured hosts with the same page.

I had: not configured hosts went to the first vhost after 000-default.conf. No matter I had *:80 catch all defined as the first vhost, instead of default Apache would load first defined site:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
</VirtualHost>

Although it's not completely valid configuration, what finally worked was adding an IP address-based virtualhost without ServerName/ServerAlias defined:

<VirtualHost 192.168.10.10:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.10.10:443>
  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html
  SSLEngine On
  ...
</VirtualHost>

$ apachectl -S outputs IP address-based vhosts first, and * based vhosts later, and finally my default site is loaded before real site:

AH00548: NameVirtualHost has no effect and will be removed in the next release /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:50
192.168.10.10:80        is a NameVirtualHost
         default server server.tld (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:34)
         port 80 namevhost server.tld (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:34)
         port 80 namevhost some-site.tld (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/100-some-site.tld.vhost:7)

...

46.23.86.103:443       is a NameVirtualHost
         default server server.tld (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:38)
         port 443 namevhost server.tld (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:38)
         port 443 namevhost some-site.tld (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/100-some-site.tld.vhost:182)

...

*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server server.tld (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost server.tld (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)

Word of notice - in a configuration like this, * vhosts won't work, so you need to apply IP addresses to all vhosts.

User · Answer

An alternative setting is to have the default virtual host at the end of the config file rather than the beginning  This way  all alternative virtual hosts will be checked before being matched by the default virtual host   Example   NameVirtualHost   80 Listen 80        lt VirtualHost   80 gt          ServerName host1         DocumentRoot  someDir  lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   80 gt          ServerName host2         DocumentRoot  someOtherDir  lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   80 gt          DocumentRoot  defaultDir  lt  VirtualHost gt

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I had the same issue  I could fix it by adding the following in httpd conf itself before the IncludeOptional directives for virtual hosts  Now localhost and the IP 192 168 x x both points to the default test page of Apache  All other virtual hosts are working as expected     lt VirtualHost   80 gt      DocumentRoot  var www html  lt  VirtualHost gt    Reference  https   httpd apache org docs 2 4 vhosts name-based html defaultvhost

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If you are using Debian style virtual host configuration  sites-available sites-enabled   one way to set a Default VirtualHost is to include the specific configuration file first in httpd conf or apache conf  or what ever is your main configuration file      To set default VirtualHost  include it before anything else  IncludeOptional sites-enabled my site com conf    Load config files in the   etc httpd conf d  directory  if any  IncludeOptional conf d   conf    Load virtual host config files from   etc httpd sites-enabled    IncludeOptional sites-enabled   conf

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I will say what worked for me  the others answers above didn t help to my case at all  I hope it can help someone   Actually  I m using Virtual host configuration  sites-available   sites-enabled  on EC2 Linux AMI with Apache 2 4 39  Amazon   So  I have 1 ec2 instance to serve many sites  domains    Considering that you already have Virtual Host installed and working  In my folder  etc httpd sites-available  I have some files with domain names  suffix  conf   for example  domain com conf  Create a new file like that      sudo nano  etc httpd sites-available domain com conf    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerName www domain com     ServerAlias domain com     DocumentRoot  var www html domain  lt  VirtualHost gt    For each file conf in sites-available  I create a symbolic link      sudo ln -s  etc httpd sites-available domain com conf  etc httpd sites-enabled domain com conf   This is the default configuration  so  if access directly by IP of Server  you will be redirect to DocumentRoot of the first file   conf  in sites-available folder  sorted by filename   To have a default DocumentRoot folder when access by IP  you have to create a file named 0a conf  then apache will serve this site because this new file will be the first in sites-available folder   You must create a symbolic link      sudo ln -s  etc httpd sites-available 0a conf  etc httpd sites-enabled 0a conf   To check serving order  use it      sudo apachectl -S   Now  restart apache  and check out it   Be happy

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I found the answer  I remembered that Apache uses the first block if no other matching block is found  so I ve added a block without a serveralias at the top of the blocks  NameVirtualHost     lt VirtualHost   gt      DocumentRoot  defaultdir   lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   gt      ServerAdmin admin domain com     DocumentRoot  someOtherDir      ServerAlias ip of the server  lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   gt      ServerAdmin admin domain com     DocumentRoot  someroot      ServerAlias domain com   domain com  lt  VirtualHost gt

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The solution is  NameVirtualHost   80 Listen 80          lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerName host1     DocumentRoot  someDir  lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerName host2     DocumentRoot  someOtherDir  lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerName aaaa com     DocumentRoot  defaultDir  lt  VirtualHost gt   In my case  to work  I created a VirtualHost  n e  VirtualHost per CNAME  called aaaa com since I have different files for different VirtualHosts and knowing that Apache reads them in alphabetical order

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The NameVirtualHost option would be a good option

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The other answers here didn t work for me  but I found a pretty simple solution that did work   I made the default one the last one listed  and I gave it ServerAlias     For example   NameVirtualHost   80   lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerName www secondwebsite com     ServerAlias secondwebsite com   secondwebsite com     DocumentRoot  home secondwebsite web  lt  VirtualHost gt    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerName www defaultwebsite com     ServerAlias       DocumentRoot  home defaultwebsite web  lt  VirtualHost gt    If the visitor didn t explicitly choose to go to something ending in secondwebsite com  they get the default website

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