Cant get rails + normal apache working simulataneously

[Bob Carologees]

The problem for me is that I can get either XAMPP or the blog working, but not both together. As soon as I add the Virtual Hosts and host file lines, XAMPP fails.

I even tried two virtual hosts and entries in host file. Here is the section from httpd.conf.


ServerName blog
DocumentRoot c:/rails/blog/public/
ErrorLog c:/rails/blog/log/apache.log


Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Allow from all
Order allow,deny


ServerName xampp
DocumentRoot c:/xampp/htdocs/
ErrorLog c:/xampp/apache/logs/error.log


Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Allow from all
Order allow,deny

When I try to load xampp in browser, I get the Rails welcome page.

I took this from loudthinking.com because it explains exactly the problem Im having, I realise this a problem with the way the virtual hosts are being set up but I'd really like to be able to run both at the same time rather than rebooting apache every time i want to run the rails app and then a normal app inside htdocs

[Bob Carologees]

Sorry, I found this somewhere which is supposed to work:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
		ServerAdmin admin@localhost
		DocumentRoot "C:/PROGRA~1/APACHE~1/Apache2/htdocs"
		ServerName localhost
		ErrorLog logs/localhost_error.log
		CustomLog logs/localhost_access.log common
	</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
	DocumentRoot "c:/dev/test/public"
	ServerName test
	ServerAlias *.test
	ErrorLog c:/dev/test/log/server.log
		<Directory "c:/dev/tfm/public">
			  Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
			  AllowOverride all
			  Allow from all
			  Order allow,deny
		</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

But I get some kind of virtualhost overlapping error when restarting apache - it closes too fast for me to see it though and it seems to be just using the first virtualhost and not the second?

[Bob Carologees]

Solved it:

To anyone else having the same problem, use the config above but before it put:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

That will resolve the issue for people wanting to run multiple rails apps on a local test server or regular apache and multiple rails apps together etc.