500 errors.

Hello!

I currently have an issue with Apache2 on a Centos 6.4 base with ISPconfig3.

Apache by default serves out the directory, /var/www with the FQDN www.example.com and example.com.

However, I have a name based virtual-host (Generated through ISPconfig3) for www.example.com and example.com on the documentroot (symlink) /var/www/example.com/ -> /path/to/website. I have tried a few different methods of changing this such as changing the default DocumenRoot in httpd.conf to the symlink, but they do not feel very robust as there are a lot of directives on the /path/to/website directory and example.com virtual-host that ISPconfig3 has added for access control, ssl, etc.

Is there a way to completely disable Apache to stop serving /var/www directory? Or alternatively is there a way to unbind /var/www from the servers FQDN/IP address? The clash in the domains and document roots is giving me a 500 error according to the error_log with apache.

Ultimately I don't want to go into httpd.conf and change the DocumentRoot to /var/www/example.com, I am concerned that the access controls will not be in tune with ISPConfig and bleed some information like SSL private keys, chains and website configuration files.

Thanks very much in advance! I appreciate the help! Please let me know if there is any information I have missed.

P.s. I understand that I am getting 403 and 404 errors because it mismatches the document roots.

 

Thanks for the reply till!

No changes were made to the httpd.conf file, in the access_log apache was saying that the /var/www/ was 403, and and sub dirs of that would throw 404, when I navigate to the example.com syslink, it throws a 500 error. I am using * in all of the configs, and no ips been set through the ISPconfig control panel.

My hosts file looks like this:

Code:

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.2.1 example.com example
192.168.2.1 www.example.com example

Code:

[root@example]# hostname
 example
[root@example]#

The head of vhost in sites-enabled looks like this for example.com :

Code:

<Directory /var/www/example.com>
                AllowOverride None
                Order Deny,Allow
                Deny from all
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>

.......

Tail of the httpd.conf file looks like this:

Code:

NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:443
Include /etc/httpd/conf/sites-enabled/

Also is it wise to set serverAlias directive manually to point to the vhost or is there an automatic way of doing that through ISPconfig. Thanks again mate!