Localhost subdomain set up on ubuntu not working

Question

In my pc (running on Ubuntu) , I have configured apache and php. I wanted to create a subdomain 'mysite.localhost' on my localhost

I have a folder /var/www/mysite Which I would like to access like http://mysite.localhost/

I followed the steps in http://thinkingnectar.com/2008/getting-ubuntu-to-work-creating-subdomain-in-localhost/

Basically did the following

Edited /etc/host and added the following line

  127.0.0.1 mysite.localhost

Created a new configuration file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite using

gksudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite
    ServerName mysite.localhost

    <Directory /var/www/mysite>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Saved the file, and run the following:

sudo a2ensite mysite

Finally restarted the Apache Server.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

But on browsing http://mysite.localhost/ I get this message

" Network Error (dns_unresolved_hostname) .Your requested host "mysite.localhost" could not be resolved by DNS. "

Can anyone suggest what could be going wrong?

Solution 1

I resolved this issue. Apparently, there is nothing wrong with the sub-domain creation process. I could not access the page because of some proxy settings. I bypassed all proxy settings for localhost, 127.0.0.1 (to do this in Ubuntu: go to browser Edit>Preferences>Advance>Network >Settings tab and set localhost, 127.0.0.1 for No proxy field ) And now it works!

Solution 2

I have a couple of suggestions that might help, but these are just "shots in the dark" since I don't have access to a system right now that I can set up with a similar situation to yours for testing.

1. If you had your browser running prior to editing /etc/hosts, then restart your browser. That should allow it to pick up changes to your hosts file.
2. In your question, you state that you want to serve your mysite files from /var/www/mysite, but in your Apache config file, you specify that the directory will be served from DocumentRoot /home/username/mysite/. One of the two needs to change; either your expectation that the files will come from /var/www/mysite, or the DocumentRoot must be set to /var/www/mysite (and correspondingly, the <Document ...> declaration must then change as well.)

If neither of these work, then you should also try pinging the system to make sure it's responding correctly, as in the following:

$ ping mysite.localhost
ping: unknown host mysite.localhost

$ sudo vi /etc/hosts
(/etc/hosts now reads:
127.0.0.1   localhost mysite.localhost)

$ ping mysite.localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.044 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms

Comments

[Paolo Irrera]

you are right about correcting the document root directory path.I checked the path I have set and it is indeed pointing to the correct path (I made a typo while asking the question,i'm going to correct it).About pining the subdomain, that works too. but simply cannot browse the url mysite.localhost :-(