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Virtual websites - what non-HTTP/1.1 compatible browsers will see 1 January 1999

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This section deals with virtual websites and what a non-HTTP/1.1 compatible browser will see if it tries to navigate to a virtual website. For a virtual website definition, I think the Apache site contains a useful explanation.

What I did

I stumbled upon this problem when I was adding some new domains to my system. For information on how to create a virtual website, see Apache - virtual hosts. I had created the directory which contained the HTML files. I'd created the DNS entry. But when I navigated to that URL, all I saw is a bunch of directories, not the website. See http://ww3.freebsddiary.org/ for an example of this. This is what non-HTTP/1.1 compatible browsers will see

What I did wrong

I did not add the following to /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf

<VirtualHost 11.22.33.44> DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/data/freebsddiary ServerName ww3.freebsddiary.org </VirtualHost>

The above situation actually occurred when I was working with http://test.freebsddiary.org/ but the example was so good I decided to keep it as http://ww3.freebsddiary.org/. The only major difference between these two URLs is the missing entry as described above.

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