Apache virtual hosts - Resources on website not loaded when accessed from other hostname than localhost
- by Christian Stadegaart
Running virtual hosts on Mac OS X 10.6.8 running Apache 2.2.22.
/etc/hosts is as follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost 3dweergave studio-12.fritz.box
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
Virtual hosts configuration:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/opt/local/www/3dweergave"
ServerName 3dweergave
ErrorLog "logs/3dweergave-error_log"
CustomLog "logs/3dweergave-access_log" common
<Directory "/opt/local/www/3dweergave">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName main
</VirtualHost>
This will output the following settings:
*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server 3dweergave (/opt/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:21)
port 80 namevhost 3dweergave (/opt/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:21)
port 80 namevhost main (/opt/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:34)
I made 3dweergave the default server by putting it first in the list. This will cause all undefined virtual hosts' names to load 3dweergave, and thus http://localhost will point to 3dweergave. Of course, normally, the first in the list is the virtual host main and localhost will point to main, but for testing purposes I switched them.
When I navigate to http://localhost, my CakePHP default homepage shows as expected:
Screenshot 1
But when I navigate to http://3dweergave, my CakePHP default homepage doesn't show as expected. It looks like every relative link to resources are not accepted by the server:
Screenshot 2
For example, the CSS isn't loaded. When I open the source and click on the link, it opens the CSS file in the browser without errors. But when I run FireBug while loading the webpage, it seems that the CSS file isn't retrieved. (<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/cake.generic.css" />)
How can I fix this unwanted behaviour?
