Why is Apache responding to http://machineName

Question

I'd like to stop Apache from responding to

http://machineName. 

I'd prefer it to respond (or redirect?) to

http://machineName.something.com

In my case,

http://intra-beta 

should either repond or redirect to

http://intra-beta.domain.ca

Is this related to useCanonicalName ?

Here's a snippet of my httpd.conf

...

ServerName xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80

NameVirtualHost *:80

...

UseCanonicalName Off

...

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName      intra-beta.domain.ca

    DocumentRoot "E:/web/intra/htdocs"
    ServerAdmin  admin@domain.ca

    ...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName   intra.otherDomainFr.ca

    DocumentRoot "E:/web/intra/htdocs"
    ServerAdmin  admin@domain.ca

    ...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName   intra.otherDomainEn.ca

    DocumentRoot "E:/web/intra/htdocs"
    ServerAdmin  admin@domain.ca

    ...
</VirtualHost>

Edit #1

This seems to work thus far...

RedirectMatch (.*) intra-beta.domain.ca$1

Edit #2

How about a situation like this:

<VirtualHost _default_:443>
#   General setup for the virtual host
DocumentRoot "E:/web/inter-ssl/htdocs"
ServerName   inter-dev.domain.ca:443
ServerAdmin  admin@domain.ca

...
</VirtualHost>

If I do the modifications so that it looks like this:

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName inter-dev
    RedirectMatch (.*) inter-dev.domain.ca$1
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost _default_:443>
    #   General setup for the virtual host
    DocumentRoot "E:/web/inter-ssl/htdocs"
    ServerName   inter-dev.domain.ca:443
    ServerAdmin  admin@domain.ca

    ...
 </VirtualHost>

I get an error related with too many redirects. If I understand correctly, SSL works differently and this fix might not be a correct implementation in this situation?

Answer 1

You need to explicitly configure your redirect:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName intra-beta
  RedirectMatch /.* http://intra-beta.domain.ca
</VirtualHost>

In your case, every request whose Host: header doesn't match any of the configured ServerNames will be answered by the first VirtualHost whose IP address matches. Thus, if you put the above new VirtualHost at the first position in your configuration file, all requests whose Host: header is different from intra-beta.domain.ca, intra.otherDomainFr.ca or intra.otherDomainEn.ca will be redirected to http://intra-beta.domain.ca.

Answer 2

in /etc/hosts you got an entry

127.0.0.1   machine   machine.domain.com

or you have configured dns to assume local domain for each hostname and it is trying to resolve hostname with this local domain each time a hostname is in DNS query.