Forum OpenACS Q&A: Problem with OpenACS/Apache and virtual hosts

Here's the scenario. I've installed the OpenACS/Apache rpms on my system
running RH 6.2. Everything went smoothly. I can bring up the index.tcl page,
login, etc. Then I started to configure apache.conf to add a virtual host
since I have two domain names pointing at the same IP address. The problem
I'm seeing is that when I access the domain pointing at OpenACS, I get a
download dialog box asking where I want to save index.html. If I go ahead
and save the file, when I look at the contents its actually index.tcl. The
other virtual host that points to a different(non ACS) directory works just
fine.

I've re-read the Apache virtual hosting docs(Its been a couple of years)
and I believe Apache is configured correctly to do what I want it to. The
problem seems to be configuring mod_aolserver and OpenACS to do what I want.

Here's what I think are the relevant parts from the config files:

The virtual hosts and AOLServer parameters in apache.conf are set up like this...
 

#
# ACS/AOL Server configuration
#
AolServerConf nsv_shmem_file /var/opt/run/aolsrv_shmem
AolServerConf lockfile /var/opt/run/aolsrv_lock
AolServerConf config_file /etc/opt/apache/nsd.ini
AolServerConf log_file_location /var/opt/log/apache/error.log
AolServerConf tcl_modules /opt/lib/apache/tcl_modules

#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName www.indaflo.com
  DocumentRoot "/var/opt/www/nuvoetech2/www"
  <Directory "/var/opt/www/nuvoetech2/www">
    Options  Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
    DirectoryIndex  index.tcl index.adp index.shtml index.html index.htm
    AddHandler adp adp
    AddHandler aolserver tcl
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName www.flyingbean.com
  DocumentRoot /home/httpd/html/flyingbean
  ErrorLog  /var/opt/log/flyingbean.com/error_log
  CustomLog /var/opt/log/flyingbean.com/access_log common
</VirtualHost>
 

The server part in nsd.ini looks this...

[ns/parameters]
  Home=/opt

; You need to make sure you get this parameters correct if you are
; running ACS.
  AuxConfigDir=/etc/opt/openacs

[ns/server/nuvoetech2]
  PageRoot=/var/opt/www/nuvoetech2/www
  EnableTclPages=On
  DirectoryFile=index.tcl, index.htm, index.html
  Verbose=on
  ;DirectoryListing=fancy

[ns/server/nuvoetech2/db]
  Pools=log,main,subquery
  DefaultPool=main

[ns/server/nuvoetech2/adp]
  Map=/*.adp

[ns/server/nuvoetech2/tcl]
  AutoClose=On
  Library=/var/opt/www/nuvoetech2/tcl

[ns/servers]
  nuvoetech2=nuvoetech2 server
 

The ACS info in nuvoetech2.ini (renamed from ad.ini) looks like this...

[ns/server/nuvoetech2/acs]
SystemName=Flying Bean
; for legal pages, full corporate entity
PublisherName=Flying Bean
; who signs the average user-visible pages
SystemOwner=webmaster@indaflo.com
; URL to tell users to go to
SystemURL=http://www.indaflo.com
; who signs the admin pages, e.g., a programmer who can fix/enhance them
AdminOwner=webmaster@indaflo.com

{...snip...}
 

I've scanned through the logs but nothing jumps out as being a problem.
I've also scanned these newsgroups but I haven't seen this issue come up with
the OpenACS/Apache version.

Help would be mucho appreciated.

Hi Steve,

I'm afraid I don't have an answer to your problem, but I can tell you that openacs is working "here" as a virtual host, along with multiple "normal" hosts.

If you're still having trouble, maybe I can help suggest where *not* to look for trouble. I modificed my apache.conf virtual host directive so that it's identical to yours (really small changes, like substituting <VirtualHost *> for <VirtualHost 64.23.66.240>) and it continues to work fine.

I'm on RH7, apache1.3.19, openacs3.2.4, mod_aolserver1.1 (from source, though, not from the RPMs)

Good luck,

Os