[PLUG] Apache virtual hosts not working for ServerAlias names - Solved

Aaron Burt aaron at bavariati.org
Sun May 5 20:57:46 UTC 2013


On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:52:46AM -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
<snip>
>     <VirtualHost *:80>
>             ServerName    www.example.net
>             ServerAlias   testy.example.net. morehost.example.net
>     </VirtualHost>
> 
> While a trailing dot is used in Bind configs to root a FQDN, this is
> breakage in Apache config.  Worse, using `apache2 -S` or `apachectl -S`
> to syntax check your configuration yields a "Syntax OK" message.
> 
> So removing the trailing dot on testy.example.net resolved the problem.

Subtle!  Thank you for sharing that particular gotcha.




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