Incoming web traffic go to other apache vhosts

Question

I trying to set up a local webserver on a Raspberry. I get the LAMP installation up and running, the hosts and vhosts are ok when I open pages directly on the server, but all incoming traffic from other device on the network goes to the "other_vhosts_access.log".

What I did

On my computer, the /etc/hosts file contains the line to redirect www.webfantasy.test to the server:

192.168.1.78 www.webfantasy.test

On the server, the /etc/hosts file contains the line to redicrect www.webfantasy.test to localhost (needed, the vhost wasn't loaded is I didn't add it):

127.0.1.1 www.webfantasy.test

The 000-default.conf has been remove from sites-enabled using the commands "a2dissite" and apache service has been reload.

The specific domain vhost file is activated:

<VirtualHost www.webfantasy.test:80>
    ServerName www.webfantasy.test
    ServerAlias www.webfantasy.test

    DocumentRoot /var/www/webfantasy
    DirectoryIndex index.php

    LogLevel warn
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/webfantasy_error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/webfantasy_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

apache2ctl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS
AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
VirtualHost configuration:
127.0.1.1:80           www.webfantasy.test (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/webfantasy.conf:1)

What I get

• From the server, the www.webfantasy.test answers with the correct page ( /var/www/webfantasy/index.php) and is logged in the webfantasy_access.log file
• From my computer, the www.webfantasy.test answers with the default Debian/Apache page ( var/www/html/index.html ) and is logged in the other_vhosts_access.log file

Did someone knows what I could modify in order for to work properly?

Answer 1

Have you read the documentation? It says this:

You may replace * with a specific IP address on the system. Such virtual hosts will only be used for HTTP requests received on connection to the specified IP address.

<VirtualHost www.webfantasy.test:80> binds the vhost to www.webfantasy.test, which resolves to 127.0.1.1 - or localhost. It will only ever work on localhost; any request on any other interface will not go to this vhost.

Remove the entry in the servers /etc/hosts, and use <VirtualHost *:80>, like the documentation suggests.