How can I solve the apache2 httpd error "mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported"

Question

Here is the error I get when booting up Apache2:

 * Starting web server apache2
 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
 [Wed Oct 21 16:37:26 2009] [error] VirtualHost *:80 -- mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results
 [Wed Oct 21 16:37:26 2009] [error] VirtualHost *:80 -- mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results
 [Wed Oct 21 16:37:26 2009] [error] VirtualHost *:80 -- mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results
 [Wed Oct 21 16:37:26 2009] [error] VirtualHost *:80 -- mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results
 [Wed Oct 21 16:37:26 2009] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

I first followed this guide on setting up Apache to host multiple sites:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/412

I then found a similar question on ServerFault and tried applying the solution, but it didn't help.

Here is an example of my final VirtualHost config:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName  www.xxx.com
    ServerAlias xxx.com

    # Indexes + Directory Root.
    DirectoryIndex index.html
    DocumentRoot /var/www/www.xxx.com

    # Logfiles
    ErrorLog  /var/www/www.xxx.com/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /var/www/www.xxx.com/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

with the domain X'd out to protect the innocent :-)

Also, I have the conf.d/virtual.conf file mentioned in the guide looking like this:

NameVirtualHost *

The odd thing is that everything appears to work fine for two of the three sites.

Answer 1

The IP addresses named with NameVirtualHost have to match the IP address in each VirtualHost element.

Example:

NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:81

<VirtualHost *:80>
# ...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:81>
# ...
</VirtualHost>

# This will not work!
<VirtualHost *>
# ...
</VirtualHost>

Read the Apache Virtual Host documentation for details.

Answer 2

Replace this:

NameVirtualHost *

With this:

NameVirtualHost *:80

Answer 3

Adding to the responses, one thing that i noticed is that you can't run SSL without having explicit declaring the :80 on every NameVirtualHost and VirtualHost directives, apache won't support having:

NameVirtualHost *

and

NameVirtualHost *:443

Mixed up in the same config, you will get errors on apache listening on port zero if you do that.

For me i just added :80 to every host so SSL could work proprietly.

Answer 4

Ex:

<VirtualHost 85.25.97.252:80>
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias *.domain.com
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "/var/www/domain.com/httpdocs/"
<Directory "/var/www/domain.com/httpdocs/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>