Thanks, Hans & Mark,

The configuration changes worked. However, I didn't really
understand your follow-ups. Mark said:

>I fully agree with Hans here, and would add a suggestion. Anytime you
>have virtual hosts be sure your main server (not the virtual host config)
>in not defined. Instead, create a third virtual host placed in front of
>all your other virtual hosts as an 'error catch-all' v-host. That way you
>do not show a wrong website, you admit that an error has occurred and the
>intended website in not available at this time.

So...what, I set up a placeholder directory called, say,
"ServerNotFound" and...set up the first record to point to that?

And then Hans said:

>I even prefer to make it independent to the order of configuration and
>*name* it
><virtual_host _default_:80> ... </virtual_host>
>(While using an include 'vhost/*.conf' OS sorting order may vary and break
>the intent, but when named this way )
>In fact I dislike serveraliasses so much, I have some mapped rewrites in
>there to redirect *.domain.tld to www.domain.tld. Even domian.tld or
>domane.tld is put on the right track that way ... nifty list of 10 domains
>times avg 5 speling bugs ;-)
>It keeps me from hassling with domain and as a bonus google will not
>report double content...

Example?

Thanks again!

On 10 Feb, 19:53, b...@kingdomrpg.com wrote:
> Thanks, Hans & Mark,
>
> The configuration changes worked. However, I didn't really
> understand your follow-ups. Mark said:
>
> >I fully agree with Hans here, and would add a suggestion. Anytime you
> >have virtual hosts be sure your main server (not the virtual host config)
> >in not defined. Instead, create a third virtual host placed in front of
> >all your other virtual hosts as an 'error catch-all' v-host. That way you
> >do not show a wrong website, you admit that an error has occurred and the
> >intended website in not available at this time.
>
> So...what, I set up a placeholder directory called, say,
> "ServerNotFound" and...set up the first record to point to that?
>

yep!


> And then Hans said:
>
> >I even prefer to make it independent to the order of configuration and
> >*name* it
> ><virtual_host _default_:80> ... </virtual_host>
> >(While using an include 'vhost/*.conf' OS sorting order may vary and break
> >the intent, but when named this way )
> >In fact I dislike serveraliasses so much, I have some mapped rewrites in
> >there to redirect *.domain.tld towww.domain.tld. Even domian.tld or
> >domane.tld is put on the right track that way ... nifty list of 10 domains
> >times avg 5 speling bugs ;-)
> >It keeps me from hassling with domain and as a bonus google will not
> >report double content...
>
> Example?
>
> Thanks again!

<VirtualHost _default_:80>
ServerName _default_
DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache2/vhosts/servernotfound/public
....
</VirtualHost>