Apache virtual host configuration error

Question

I'm trying to configure Apache2 with Django and mod_wsgi on a virtual host.

I wrote a simple configuration file:

<VirtualHost: *.80>

        ServerName gpx
        ServerAlias gpx.gpsfte
        DocumentRoot /var/www/gpx/htdocs

        WSGIScriptAlias / /var/django/gpx/wsgi/mainapp.wsgi

</VirtualHost>

But when I reload Apache I get this error:

# service apache2 reload
apache2: Syntax error on line 237 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 9 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/gpx: Expected </VirtualHost:> but saw </VirtualHost>
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
   ...fail!

I'm really lost, what does it mean with </VirtualHost:>? Thanks for any help you can give me.

Solution 1

The problem looks like it is with the way you've opened the section: the ending tag that matches <VirtualHost: ...> is </VirtualHost:>, as the error indicates.

Presumably you meant to open the section with the following instead:

<VirtualHost *:80>

(note that there is no colon after VirtualHost)

Solution 2

Assuming this is a web server, your current structure and configuration would look more like this:

<VirtualHost: *:80>
      ServerName       domain.tld
      ServerAlias      sub.domain.tld
      DocumentRoot     /path/to/document/root
      WSGIScriptAlias  /var/django/gpx/wsgi/mainapp.wsgi
</VirtualHost>

Comments

[rwc]

Which line is 237 in your apache2.conf?

[lava]

copy paste the code in vim editor may missing <virtualhost >tag check it