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I've got server with 1 ipv4 address and with a few ipv6 addresses. One domain is redirected to ipv4 A record I set up apache ports.conf like this:

Listen ip.v4.address:80
NameVirtualHost ip.v4.address:80

and virtualhost file:

<VirtualHost ip.v4.address:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/first/
ServerName first.domain
ServerAlias www.first.domain
ErrorLog ...
CustomLog ...
</VirtualHost>

And everything works fine.

Now I want to create new virtualhost for second domain with second ip. I redirected second domain to ipv6 AAAA record, add to ports.conf:

Listen [ip.v6.address]:80
NameVirtualHost [ip.v6.address]:80

create new virtualhost file:

<VirtualHost [ip.v6.address]:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/second/
ServerName second.domain
ServerAlias www.second.domain
ErrorLog ...
CustomLog ...
</VirtualHost>

and restart Apache. There was no errors on server start but it doesn't work. When I enter second domain in the browser the server is not found. When I enter [ip.v6.address] site shows up.

Any help?

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  • Thanks for help everyone. IPv6 is correct and I need two different sites. I contacted my domain provider where I set up this AAAA record. They said it can take 24h to set it up and maybe here is the problem. When I set up A record the effect was almost immediate and I thought AAAA works the same way.
    – sheldy
    Nov 18, 2011 at 16:02
  • It would be nice if you marked your favourite answer as such, so that the people who tried to help you get some reward for doing so ;-)
    – Sander Steffann
    Dec 10, 2011 at 21:54

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Your apache config looks correct, but a little more complex than it needs to be if you want one site to be reachable over both IPv4 and IPv6 (dual stack).

Instead of

<VirtualHost ip.v4.address:80>
...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost [ip.v6.address]:80>
...
</VirtualHost>

you can do

<VirtualHost ip.v4.address:80 [ip.v6.address]:80>
...
</VirtualHost>

That way the single virtual hosts listens on both IP addresses. It is a lot easier to maintain!

If you really want a different site on IPv6 then your configuration is correct of course.

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    Or maybe <VirtualHost *:80> ?
    – Koos van den Hout
    Dec 2, 2011 at 13:12
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    That could certainly work as well, but since he explicitly specified the IP addresses in his example I did so as well. If you don't really care about the IP address and just want to do everything by the Host: header then your solution is much easier. Watch out with SSL/TLS sites though. You need to make sure that Server Name Indication (TLS/SNI) works for your user base.
    – Sander Steffann
    Dec 10, 2011 at 21:52
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This sounds like an IPv6 name resolution error rather than an Apache error. Check that the name resolves correctly to the address.

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Does the name resolve to the correct IPv6 address? This seems to be problem in domain resolution.

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