Hosting two websites from the same webserver

Question

On my webserver, I want to serve several websites just based on domain name.

For example, I want a webserver that will serve "mycoolsite.com" and "badstuff.org".

I pointed both sites at the same IP address. In httpd-vhosts, I made two entries:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /www/mycoolsite
  ServerName www.mycoolsite.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /www/badstuff
  ServerName www.badstuff.org
</VirtualHost>

But when I go to badstuff.org, I get served mycoolsite.com! Why is this happening?

Apache Doc

I also know that when I use MAMP, I have to adjust my "hosts" file too. Is this relevant?

Answer 1

Have you added the NameVirtualHost directive before the vhosts declaration ?

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
...
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

You may want to check your configuration by command:

$/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -S

If everything is OK, try to check again by restarting the server.