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Does anyone know is it possible to setup apache vhost in a following way:

  • if user access to www.example.com then vhost takes it to /www/example.com
  • if user access to www.example2.com then vhost takes it to /www/example2.com
  • if user access to an IP of server 1.2.3.4 then it gets some default page /www/default

Is it possible to make a generic configuration that will avoid having exact IP address of the server in it ? (so that if server IP changes it's not neccessary to change configuration files)

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  • I recommend you to block all IP-based vhosts to avoid scanners. I block it with modsecurity rules from modsecurity_crs_21_protocol_anomalies.conf
    – GioMac
    Aug 14, 2013 at 20:21

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For your default page it would like this (this allows any IP address to go to the default page). The * is a wildcard for the IP address.

NameVirtualHost *:80

For virtual hosts your config file would look like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot "/www/example1.com/"
        ServerName example1.com    
        ServerAlias www.example1.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot "/www/example2.com/"
        ServerName example1.com    
        ServerAlias www.example1.com
</VirtualHost>
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  • and where did you tell it to go to /www/default when an IP is entered as URL ?
    – Marko3d
    Aug 14, 2013 at 18:41
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if you re using seperate config files for the virtual hosts, for example in the subdirectory /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/, then you can just create one config with a name starting with 0_ and then any name (0_default_host.conf) and use just any ServerName. This config will be used for every request which is coming without proper hostname.

In this config file you can just create a redirect which is redirecting every request to nothing. Something like that: RewriteRule .* - [F]

This setup will block every hostname and ipaddress which is not handeled by the other config files.

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