Help setting up virtual hosts

[ckosloff]

Now apache service is unavailable, localhost does not display.

	
	
root@crosshair:~# systemctl status apache2.service 
● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server 
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) 
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-08-15 08:53:48 EDT; 51s ago 
       Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/ 
    Process: 3001 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 20ms 

Aug 15 08:53:48 crosshair systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server... 
Aug 15 08:53:48 crosshair apachectl[3004]: AH00526: Syntax error on line 13 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/Zentest.com.conf: 
Aug 15 08:53:48 crosshair apachectl[3004]: Invalid command 'SeverAlias', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the[##############################]>[/COLOR]
Aug 15 08:53:48 crosshair apachectl[3001]: Action 'start' failed. 
Aug 15 08:53:48 crosshair apachectl[3001]: The Apache error log may have more information. 
Aug 15 08:53:48 crosshair systemd[1]: apache2.service: Control process exited, 
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 15 08:53:48 crosshair systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 15 08:53:48 crosshair systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.

Typo in ServerAlias, fat fingers.
Still apacheservice does not restart.

Aug 15 08:53:48 crosshair systemd[1]:

apache2.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 15 08:53:48 crosshair systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 15 08:53:48 crosshair systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.

[ckosloff]

when you say it is not working, i'm really not sure what you mean.

you said that you were getting a droplet from digital ocean. did you get that? is that the server where these configuration files are?

if i were to ping zentest.com, the response back is from something called hover:

P

i do not think hover is part of your setup.... unless i am missing something.

apache may be running and it may serve up the correct web pages, but is anything getting routed to your droplet?

is there anything in:

/var/log/apache2/access.log
or
/var/log/apache2/error.log

sysadmin takes a little bit of work.

best.

I mean that I am unable to start service, localhost does not display.
Digital Ocean is a project, nothing there yet.
Hover is a canned response from google, you will see it if you type in browser Zentest.com.
I already corrected typo in sites-enabled, still apache does not restart.
I tried re-installing, no luck.
Next step is brute force: purge apache2 and reinstall fresh, something tells me that solution is simpler than that, can it be that a stupid typo messes up things so badly?
Cannot access /var/log/apache2 with GUI.
How see it on command line?

[carlwhat]

there is no point in looking at the logs if the apache service has not started.

i would keep the server name and server alias all in lower case.

looking at logs? one could use less or tail.

one might need to sudo if one's user is not in right groups.

sudo less /var/log/apache2/access.log

or

sudo tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log

a more detailed discussion of configuring user and groups is available by searching on-line.

i would also look at hardening your server. i like these guys here:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-security.html

best.

[carlwhat]

i would not re-install.

solve problems. move forward.

[ckosloff]

SUCCESS!! Localhost is back in all its shining glory.
Problem was in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Another typo when trying to correct the alert about "fully qualified domain name".
I typed Server Name instead of ServerName, duhhhh

[ckosloff]

Now I need help editing /etc/hosts.
This is what I have:

127.0.0.1localhost 
127.0.1.1crosshair 

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback 
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes 
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Where does Zentest.com go?
crosshair is the name of my computer.

[ckosloff]

root@crosshair:/etc/apache2/sites-available# ls -al 
total 24 
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root     4096 Aug 15 23:10 . 
drwxr-xr-x 8 root     root     4096 Aug 15 17:26 .. 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root     1332 Aug  8  2020 000-default.conf 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root     6338 Aug  8  2020 default-ssl.conf 
-rw-r--r-- 1 ckosloff www-data 1411 Aug 15 23:14 zentest.com.conf 
root@crosshair:/etc/apache2/sites-available# a2ensite zentest.com 
Enabling site zentest.com. 
To activate the new configuration, you need to run: 
  systemctl reload apache2 
root@crosshair:/etc/apache2/sites-available# systemctl reload apache2 
root@crosshair:/etc/apache2/sites-available# apache2ctl configtest 
Syntax OK

SUCCESS!! Everything is in lower case now.
Only thing missing is to edit /etc/hosts/
I think that I should add a newline under the hosts like this:
127.0.0.1 zentest.com.
Will test that tomorrow.
It's late and I am already drunk.

[ckosloff]

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost 
        ServerName Zentest.com 
        SeverAlias www.Zentest.com 
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/Zentest.com

configtest reports that line with ServerAlias is incorrect, maybe because of the uppercase?
WIll check logs.

Probably, that has already been fixed and I got "Syntax OK", there was also a typo in there: Sever instead of Server.
Anyway I am going to add line to /etc/hosts and see if it works.

[carlwhat]

Probably, that has already been fixed and I got "Syntax OK", there was also a typo in there: Sever instead of Server.
Anyway I am going to add line to /etc/hosts and see if it works.

lowercase is for zentest.com and www.zentest.com

apache config are case sensitive, ie:

ServerAlias

having a spelling error, ie:

SeverAlias

is a problem and would need to be fixed.

this is also case sensitive:

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/Zentest.com

that directory must exist and with that same capitalization.

[ckosloff]

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost 
        ServerName Zentest.com 
        SeverAlias www.Zentest.com 
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/Zentest.com

configtest reports that line with ServerAlias is incorrect, maybe because of the uppercase?
WIll check logs.

Uppercase is not the problem, problem is typo SeverAlias instead of ServerAlias