Things look quiet here. But I've been doing a lot of blogging at
dan.langille.org because I prefer WordPress now.
Not all my posts there are FreeBSD related.
I am in the midst of migrating The FreeBSD Diary over to WordPress
(and you can read about that here).
Once the migration is completed, I'll move the FreeBSD posts into the
new FreeBSD Diary website.
Virtual websites - what non-HTTP/1.1 compatible browsers will see1 January 1999
This section deals with
virtual websites and what a non-HTTP/1.1 compatible browser will see if it tries to
navigate to a virtual website. For a virtual website definition, I think the Apache site contains a useful explanation.
What I did
I stumbled upon this problem when I was adding some new
domains to my system. For information on how to create a virtual website, see Apache - virtual hosts. I had created the directory
which contained the HTML files. I'd created the DNS entry. But when I
navigated to that URL, all I saw is a bunch of directories, not the website. See http://ww3.freebsddiary.org/ for an example of
this. This is what non-HTTP/1.1 compatible browsers will see
What I did wrong
I did not add the following to /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
The above situation actually occurred when I was working with http://test.freebsddiary.org/ but the example was
so good I decided to keep it as http://ww3.freebsddiary.org/.
The only major difference between these two URLs is the missing entry as described
above.
