Setting up name-based virtual hosts on Apache Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu 12)

[vsiege2]

SETUP:
Apache/2.4.6
Ubuntu 12.x

I am having trouble setting up any virtual hosts on my LAN. I want to have multiple name based virtual hosts. The first example vhost i am setting up is days.com. Unfortunately, when I type that address, Apache/2.4.6 does not redirect the address to the vhost.


Heres my days.com.conf (enabled) in /etc/apache2/sites-available:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName days.com
        ServerAlias www.days.com


        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/zzz


        #ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        #CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined


        <Directory />
                Options All
                AllowOverride All
                Require all granted
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I enabled it using:

sudo a2ensite days.com.conf
sudo service apache2 reload
 * Reloading web server apache2

If I run the following command I get this response:

apachectl -S

VirtualHost configuration:

*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server localhost (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost localhost (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost days.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/days.com.conf:1)
                 alias www.days.com

Heres my /etc/hosts file setup:

#127.0.0.1      localhost
#Virtual Hosts
127.0.0.1       days.com www.days.com duck.dev
days.com        days.com www.days.com
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-l   ocalnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

What am I doing wrong?

FYI:
The only two conf files in /etc/apache2/sites-available and /etc/apache2/sites-enabled are:

000-default.conf
days.com.conf

[CharlesA]

Remove this line:

days.com        days.com www.days.com

The hosts file is only used for ip address to host name resolution.

[vsiege2]

OK. I removed that line, but my vhost is not working yet. Here's exactly what i did:
Removed this line from /etc/hosts :

days.com        days.com www.days.com

Reloaded apache2.4.6:

:~$ sudo service apache2 reload
 * Reloading web server apache2                                                                                                                                                                              *

IN my browser:
1. Cleared cache
2. Typed www.days.com in address field

FYI: I also tried:

sudo service apache2 restart
* Restarting web server apache2

[CharlesA]

What does it say after you try to access days.com ?

Run this after you try to access it:

tail /var/log/apache2/access.log

I think that's right, I don't use Apache, so I'm not 100% sure.

[vsiege2]

I don't see anything get updated in the access log when I type: http://days.com or days.com or www.days.com

The only things that appear:

127.0.0.1 - - [12/Dec/2013:12:14:57 -0800] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 125 "-" "Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.6-1+debphp.org~precise+2 (internal dummy connection)"127.0.0.1 - - [12/Dec/2013:12:14:57 -0800] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 125 "-" "Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.6-1+debphp.org~precise+2 (internal dummy connection)"
127.0.0.1 - - [12/Dec/2013:12:14:57 -0800] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 125 "-" "Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.6-1+debphp.org~precise+2 (internal dummy connection)"
127.0.0.1 - - [12/Dec/2013:12:14:57 -0800] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 125 "-" "Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.6-1+debphp.org~precise+2 (internal dummy connection)"
127.0.0.1 - - [12/Dec/2013:12:14:57 -0800] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 125 "-" "Apache/2.4.6 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.6-1+debphp.org~precise+2 (internal dummy connection)"
192.168.16.170 - - [12/Dec/2013:13:48:13 -0800] "GET /fake/dev/ HTTP/1.1" 200 735 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36"
192.168.16.170 - - [12/Dec/2013:13:48:13 -0800] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 502 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36"
192.168.16.170 - - [12/Dec/2013:13:52:46 -0800] "GET /fake/dev/ HTTP/1.1" 200 735 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36"
192.168.16.170 - - [12/Dec/2013:13:52:47 -0800] "GET /fake/dev/ HTTP/1.1" 200 734 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36"
192.168.16.170 - - [12/Dec/2013:13:53:42 -0800] "GET /fake/dev/ HTTP/1.1" 200 735 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36"

[CharlesA]

What machine are you trying to access the days.com site from?

[vsiege2]

Im accessing the address from another box on my LAN. Its a mac. The Ubuntu server has a static IP while everything else has a dynamic IP. I'm actually kind of amazed it's taken me this long to get this working. If I type the address of the server in, then put the relevant directory, I can see the site located in www directory.

[CharlesA]

Im accessing the address from another box on my LAN. Its a mac. The Ubuntu server has a static IP while everything else has a dynamic IP. I'm actually kind of amazed it's taken me this long to get this working. If I type the address of the server in, then put the relevant directory, I can see the site located in www directory.

Which machine were you modifying the hosts file on?

[pascalfares]

what is the result of this command?

dig days.com ?

[vsiege2]

I was modifying the ubuntu server hosts file over ssh from my osx box


DIG:

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> days.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44317
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0


;; QUESTION SECTION:
;days.com. IN A


;; ANSWER SECTION:
days.com. 3600 IN A xx.xxx.xx.xx


;; Query time: 6 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Dec 13 11:12:36 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 42