From nobody@hyperreal.com Thu Apr 17 03:53:18 1997 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by hyperreal.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA24401; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:53:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704171053.DAA24401@hyperreal.com> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 03:53:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Richards Reply-To: wildbill@aewa.org To: apbugs@hyperreal.com Subject: Certain Browsers cannot access multiple virtualhosts configured w/same ip address X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 408 >Category: general >Synopsis: Certain Browsers cannot access multiple virtualhosts configured w/same ip address >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: closed >Class: support >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 17 04:00:01 1997 >Last-Modified: Thu Apr 17 16:25:25 PDT 1997 >Originator: wildbill@aewa.org >Organization: >Release: 1.2b7 >Environment: Linux version 2.0.27, gcc version 2.7.2 >Description: When using Netscape 1.1 or MSie 2.0 (Win95 and NT 4.0) users cannot access the virtualhost sites configured for the server. But instead arrive at the default web page for the server (in this case a modified red hat default opage). Using Netscape 2.0 or greater or MSie 3.0 everthing works fine. Note that MSie 2.0 is the default Browser with Win95 and NT 4.0 workstation installs. Excerpts from /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: ServerAdmin wildbill@www.aewa.org DocumentRoot /home/aewa/http ServerName www.aewa.org ErrorLog /home/aewa/htlogs/aewa-errors.log ErrorDocument 404 /aewa.html TransferLog /home/aewa/htlogs/aewa-access.log ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/aewa/http/cgi-bin/ ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/logscribe/ /home/aewa/http/cgi-bin/logscribe/ ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/gtcount/ /home/aewa/http/cgi-bin/gtcount/ ServerAdmin dbarr@home.site.net DocumentRoot /home/dbarr/www ServerName dbcomputers.site.net ErrorLog /home/dbarr/htlogs/dbc-errors.log TransferLog /home/dbarr/htlogs/dbc-access.log ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/dbarr/www/cgi-bin/ ServerAdmin admin@home.site.net DocumentRoot /home/httpd/html/tmc ServerName tmc.site.net ErrorLog /www/logs/tmc/tmc-errors.log TransferLog /www/logs/tmc/tmc-access.log ScriptAlias /tmc/_vti_bin/_vti_adm/ /home/httpd/html/tmc/_vti_bin/_vti_adm/ ScriptAlias /tmc/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/ /home/httpd/html/tmc/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/ ScriptAlias /tmc/_vti_bin/ /home/httpd/html/tmc/_vti_bin/ >How-To-Repeat: http://www.aewa.org, http://tmc.site.net or http://dbcomputers.site.net >Fix: No%2 >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: chuck State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 17 16:25:25 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: Yes, that's correct. Browsers must send a Host: header to use non IP based virtual hosts, and older browsers do not. This is mentioned in the documentation on this subject. Thanks for using Apache. >Unformatted: