VirtualHost always returns default host with Apache on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I try to setup a virtual host besides the default localhost. Whenever I try to call my virtual host http://test I get the default Apache2 Index file t

Answer 1

Maybe there is a problem with .conf files of the virtual-hosts.

First run the command:

apache2ctl -S

The response must be something like

VirtualHost configuration:
*:443                  is a NameVirtualHost
     default server localhost (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default-ssl.conf:2)
     port 443 namevhost localhost (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default-ssl.conf:2)
     port 443 namevhost myvhost.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/myvhosts.com.conf:20)
             alias www.myvhost.com

*: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 myvhost.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/myvhost.com.conf:1)
             alias www.myvhost.com

But sometimes you can read:

default server myvhost.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default-ssl.conf:2)

so your vhost domain point to default configuration (http or https).

The solution is to add ServerName localhost directive in the default-ssl.conf and in the 000-default.conf files.

Apache don't know who is the name of your default site and it takes one random resolving 127.0.0.1.

After setting the ServerName, you must run:

service apache2 reload
service apache2 restart

If you run again apache2ctl -S you must see the correct match for the default server.