Debian 8 upgrade - New websites not loading properly

Virtualmin
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Dear All,

I was running Debian 7 with
Webmin version 1.770
Virtualmin version 4.18.gpl

Last night i upgraded to Debian 8 following the given below url

https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/system/os/debian-wheezy-to-jessie-distupgrade

Everything went on fine.

Now all my websites which were created before upgrade are working perfectly fine.
But when i create a new virtual server, it loads my default website and not the correct one.
I tried a2dissite default
But no resolution.

Looks strange to me.
Please help me resolve the issue.

Thanks and Regards

2

I checked the error logs.
This is what i oberved.

Cannot serve directory /home/domain/public_html/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.html,index.htm,index.php,index.php4,index.php5) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive

Please help.

Thanks and Regards

3

Another observation

If i use https://domain.com, it loads fine
But, if i use http://domain.com, it loads the default website and not the intended website.

Please help.
Thanks and Regards

4

Another observation

Type Address Port Server Name Document Root Virtual Server ipnumber:80 Any old-domain.com /home/old-domain.com/public_html Virtual Server ipnumber:443 Any old-domain.com /home/old-domain.com/public_html

Type Address Port Server Name Document Root
Virtual Server Any 80 newdomain.com /home/newdomain.com/public_html
Virtual Server ipnumber:443 Any newdomain.com /home/newdomain.com/public_html
5

Howdy,

Having the default domain in there while Virtualmin created the new Virtual Server may have caused Virtualmin to use the wrong settings.

The “Any” address shown in your last post may be the source of the issue.

Take a peek at this document, this may help you get things working the way they should be:

https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/web/troubleshooting#The_Wrong_Site_Shows_Up

6

Hello andreychek,

to quote from the link given above,

“You would also want to verify that each VirtualHost block lists an IP address, and not an asterisk (*) character.”

That exactly is my issue

All new virtual servers created after debian 8 ugrade have the given below format, whereas the servers created before upgrade are perfectly fine.

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/newdomain.com.conf:<VirtualHost *:80>

How do i resolve the same ?

Thanks and Regards

7

Howdy,

You can just edit those files and change them to match the older ones.

Once you get rid of all the config files using the incorrect format, all new domains should be created correctly.

After making the changes, you’d need to restart Apache.

-Eric

8

Hello andreychek,

Issue resolved. Thanks a lot,

Can you please let me know why in the earlier case with incorrect format (*.80), it was getting directed to the default domain whereas with https (ipnumber:443), it was loading fine ?

Thanks and Regards

9

Howdy,

It’s what I mentioned in my comment above, that having the default domain (which you already removed) in there while Virtualmin created the new Virtual Server caused Virtualmin to use the wrong settings.

That default domain was using *:80, which caused Virtualmin to think you wanted all new domains to use that format.

I’m glad you got it working now though!

-Eric