Weird apache virtual host problem

Question

I'm using XAMPP on Windows and I'm trying to set up a virtual site on 8080 port. I'm using the following conf:

Listen 80
Listen 8080

NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:8080

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:8080>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/site2/"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

In site2 I have files...

site2/img/profile_pic.png and site2/icons/led/map.png

I can open the first one in my browser using the http://localhost:8080/img/profile_pic.png but the second one returns 404 when I try to open it (http://localhost:8080/icons/led/map.png)

The funny thing is that when I enter http://localhost:8080/icons it list the folder c:\xampp\apache\icons

Whats happening here?

Answer 1

Search the httpd.conf config file, you will probably find a default directive defining a link to c:\xampp\apache\icons

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#alias

Answer 2

Virtual hosting expects that you use the domain name in your request. For example:

http://localhost:8080/whatever

is just going to try and serve up the default site.

You need to set servername to the domain name of the site. For example "domain1.com" and "domain2.com".

You should set your hosts file (for testing) to:

127.0.0.1 domain1.com
127.0.0.1 domain2.com

and then go to each site in your browser like so:

http://domain1.com/test/file.bmp

http://domain2.com:8080/test/otherfile.bmp

Answer 3

Anyways... I found the source of my problem... The configuration was correct, the problem was with an alias defined somewhere in the default configuration used to display icons for directory listings... The alias was for /icons/ the same directory I use... so, mistery solved :)