Ttyjfyk

I've set up three virtual hosts in apache 2.4 with the following entrys:

<VirtualHost *:443>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
 DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
 ErrorLog $APACHE_LOG_DIR/error.log
 CustomLog $APACHE_LOG_DIR/access.log combined
 ServerName www.xx.de
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
 DocumentRoot /var/www/html/sh/
 ErrorLog $APACHE_LOG_DIR/error.log
 CustomLog $APACHE_LOG_DIR/access.log combined
 ServerName sh.xx.de
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
 DocumentRoot /var/www/html/nc/
 ErrorLog $APACHE_LOG_DIR/error.log
 CustomLog $APACHE_LOG_DIR/access.log combined
 ServerName n.xx.de
</VirtualHost>

The access works from the internet as well as from local network. But if I'm in local network, I want to redirect querys to the local IP not to the external IP. The DNS is on the same device as the apache is. I've already tried using dnsmasq to resolve xx.de with the local IP 192.168.0.55. This works, if I'm using xx.de/sh/ for example. But sh.xx.de doesn't work.

DNS only maps IP addresses to Hostnames and vice versa, not to a URL

A URL is made up of 3^* parts, lets take http://example.com/foo:

1. a Scheme e.g. http:


2. a Host e.g. example.com


3. a Path e.g. /foo

So when the browser on your computer requests http://example.com/foo the DNS will convert example.com to the IP address. The computer will then use the IP address to connect to the remote machine on the default Scheme port (80 for http).

Once connected it will make a HTTP request (e.g GET /foo) and as part of the request it will include the HTTP Host Header. This header tells the HTTP server which hostname the browser looked up in the DNS. This then allows the HTTP server to map the request to the correct Virtual Host.

It sounds like you need to set up 3 virtual hosts on the machine with the IP address 192.168.0.55.

1. one for a.xx.com


2. one for b.xx.com


3. a default virtual host (to cover the raw IP address 192.168.0.55) that hosts the actual /aaaa and /bbbb directories

The first 2 should redirect to the correct path hosted by the 3rd.

^*There can be more parts (e.g. user/password, port and query), but this is enough for this example