Apache Name Based VirtualHosts Not Working For Varying Local Hostname

Question

I'm trying to configure Apache2 to host different sections of my website for varying host names of the URL using name based virtual hosts.

My server is running Debian 7 with Apache version 2.2.22.

For example:

• "example.com" and "a.example.com" will have the root directory /var/www/a/ (and is the default site)
• "b.example.com" will have the root directory /var/www/b/

Below shows the edits I've made to the configuration files of Apache:

ports.conf

NameVirtualHost *:80
Listen 80
....

sites-available/default

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName a.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/a/
</VirtualHost>

sites-available/b

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName b.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/b/
</VirtualHost>

I've run "a2ensite b" and "service apache2 reload".

The index page of the the b site can be loaded becasue when I switch the document roots around, as in set the default side to /var/www/b/, I get the index page of site b when I go to (what would be) a.example.com.

The site is also definitely enabled as I can see the shortcut to the config file of b in the "sites-enabled/" folder

Answer 1

Have you checked, that you actually have symlink in sites-enabled folder? Sounds really like a problem that your sites-available/b config file is not loaded.