Upgrade to Apache 2.2.6 - lost virtual hosts

[webkuh]

Hi

I just ran a yum upgrade httpd on my server using Jason Litka repository

http://www.jasonlitka.com/2007/09/12...el-and-centos/

I use webmin to administer my server and so I then logged into webmin. My virtual hosts have all disappeared! Yet they still show up under the Virtualmin Virtual Servers category of Webmin

There now seem to be multiple httpd.conf files in various places on my server and I can't find any reference to my Virtual Hosts in any of them.

The Virtual Hosts are still actually displaying via their domains but I think this is because I haven't managed to restart apache yet.

Stupidly I don't have a back-up of the virtual hosts file so I wondered if they might have been automatically backed-up by Webmin...?

Thanks for any help

One very amateur admin

[dklynn]

kuh,

Another "canned program" horror story!

BEFORE you restart Apache, recreate your VirtualHost section(s) and put them in a vhost.conf file and modify EVERY httpd.conf (unless you can determine which one will be the one used to restart) to include the vhost.conf file, e.g.,

Include conf/vhosts.conf #assumes that it's colocated with the httpd.conf in Apache's conf subdirectory OR
# Include /home/path/to/vhosts.conf

At least that should maintain your VirtualHosts while you sort WHICH httpd.conf that is being used.

Which one? Pop the foo directive (an uncommented line containing only foo) in each httpd.conf, one at a time, and try to restart Apache (Apache will not understand foo so it will not start). When it does not start, THAT is the httpd.conf Apache is looking to for its startup so quickly remove the foo directive and restart.

Backups? 'Nuf said.

Regards,

DK

[webkuh]

Hi DK

Thanks for your response. In the end I managed to resolve as I discovered that I'd made the good decision a while ago to accept my hosting companie's auto server back-up and via that got hold of my original httpd.conf file with all the virtual hosts!

All seems to be working now...

Thanks again

Nick