Ubuntu Apache2 Virtual Server

I needed to set up another drupal site on my ubuntu linode. I had a domain name, I wanted to make it an independent site. I decided to keep it seperate from my existing site by putting in a fresh Drupal 4.6.1 installation and not to use Drupals virtual server facility.

I knew Apache2 supported virtual hosting and I decided to use that. I tried creating a new virtual host by creating a file in /etc/apache2/sites-available as follows:

<VirtualHost *>
        ServerName www.site2.com
        ServerAlias site2.com
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www/site2
        <Directory /var/www/site2/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                # pcw AllowOverride None
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
                # This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
                # in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
                # Commented out for Ubuntu
                #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/site2/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/site2/access.log combined
        ServerSignature On

</VirtualHost>

where site2 is the name of the new site. Note that I created /var/log/apache2/site2 so that the site would get it's own access logs.

I used the command

a2ensite site2
 

to enable the site. I restarted apache2 and, bang, both this site and the new site showed the new site, I had broken this site.

After faffing around and googling, I tried a simple experiment. I removed the symbolic link to site2 from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled created by a2ensite and I just appended the above file to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. I restarted apache2 and this worked, I had two sites. This is probably not the right way to do it but it works and any time I spend fixing it will bring this site down which bothers me so I'll leave it as it is unless I come across the correct way to do it.

Update: On my oneandone server running debian this is working fine as a seperate file, enabled with a2ensite:

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName petersblog.org
    ServerAlias petersblog.org *.petersblog.org
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www/petersblog.org
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/petersblog.org>
        # pcw No directory listsings
        # Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/petersblog.org/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/petersblog.org/access.log combined
    ServerSignature On

</VirtualHost>

I have four sites set up like this and all are working.