On 09/04/2017 16:18, Paul Stimpson wrote:
> I've just done a long-overdue refresh on my VPS. One of the packages
> upgraded was Apache, to version 2.4-25. It appears the syntax of the
> site conf files has changed since the last version I was running and
> all is not totally "well on the farm."
I'm not an Apache wizard, but I found the following two URLs helped me
with changing my configuration for 2.4:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/upgrading.html
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/migrating-your-apache-configuration-from-2-2-to-2-4-syntax
The main points I had to deal with were renaming my configuration files
to end in ".conf", and replacing: "Order allow,deny
Allow from all" with "Require all granted" (or, for the opposite,
"Require all denied").
> I have two IP addresses bound to the server.
>
> I am trying to achieve:
>
> * Running a number of different web sites on domains I own, each
> with its own folder on the filesystem.
>
This should be the same as for 2.2.
>
> * These websites are spread across HTTP a (80) and HTTPS (443) on
> both IP addresses.
> * I want Apache to recognise which site to serve from the URL,
> rather than the IP address.
>
My 'ports.conf' has the following entries:
Listen 80
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
Listen 443 https
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_gnutls.c>
Listen 443 https
</IfModule>
I think I had to add the 'https' to each line that had '443' to make it
work.
For each virtual host you will probably want the entry to start:
<VirtualHost *:80> or <VirtualHost *:443> to match any IP address
(you'll need a block for each to make it work for both, unless someone
can suggest a clever way to do it all in one virtualhost entry).
As long as your VirtualHost has a statement giving the ServerName (and,
for any alternate names, ServerAlias), this should work.
(As a side note, if you are using Certbot for your SSL certificates you
will only want one VirtualHost entry per conf file or it will not
recognise that site).
> * I want separate conf files for each site to make taking them up
> and down and reconfiguring easy.
>
This should be the same as for 2.2.
>
> * I want to be able to serve different sites from different folders
> on some subdomains e.g. example.com serves one site and
> mail.example.com serves another.
>
Again, I don't think the syntax for this has changed in 2.4, unless you
were doing something clever (perhaps with macros?).
I hope that is of some help to you. You might need to provide a
(suitably anonymised) copy of your virtualhost setup so that we can
advise further.
Thanks
Gavin
