Enhancement: create default VirtualHost

[ivanoats]

In order to keep the host that is originally defined in the main httpd.conf alive, you have to define a VirtualHost with the same values for it first. (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/name-based.html - Main Host Goes Away box )

I'm feeling too lazy to write something that parses the original httpd.conf right now and creates it automatically, sorry. But perhaps worth mentioning in the README

[chrisroos]

Just so that I understand, does this deal with the situation where you've got Apache configured but without any virtual hosts enabled?

[ivanoats]

Yes, that's it. Thanks!

[chrisroos]

Ah, OK. Given that this doesn't affect my use of the gem, and no-one else complains, I'm going to leave this for now. You should absolutely feel free to add support if you'd like it :-) I'll leave this issue open in case anyone else comes across it/requests it.

[nathos]

Just to chime in here, this is also useful when you do have virtual hosts configured, but still want to access http://localhost/ directly.

changing the hostess httpd.conf block to the following would do the trick:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName _default_
</VirtualHost>
Include /etc/apache2/hostess_vhosts/*.conf

Without the default server name, requests to http://localhost/ would be forwarded to the first configured virtual host. This is probably not the behavior people want or expect.

(FYI, setting a default virtual host is what the Phusion Passenger prefpane does. I'd consider it a best practice)