Bug#234615: apache2-common: NameVirtualHost requires _default_ not *

[Charles Fry <debian@frogcircus.org>]

Package: apache2-common
Severity: normal

The [1][2]Apache documentation indicates that when using
NameVirtualHost, the VirtualHost directive should use * (as opposed to
_default_) to match all IP addresses. However my experimentation has
demonstrated that if I have multiple VirtualHost entries, with different
ServerNames, all starting with the line:

<VirtualHost *:80>

Every server name will be matched by the first VirtualHost entry.
However, the documented behavior was achieved by using _default instead:

<VirtualHost _default_:80>

This is either a bug in the implementation, or the documentation.

Charles

1. http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#virtualhost
2. http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/name-based.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel: Linux frogcircus.org 2.4.25-5um #5 Thu Feb 19 14:29:11 EST 2004 i686
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