Ruby on Rails

Hassan,

I start Apache via ...
 sudo apache2ctl start


In terms of sites-available ... where do I find the default host?
I do see something called
 /etc/apache2/sites-available

Does Apache look at all the *.conf files? If not, how does it know which .conf file to look at?

Ralph



Saturday, July 7, 2018, 2:01:08 PM, you wrote:

HS> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 12:10 PM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:

>> I don't think I am using anything but Apache and Rails.

>> How can I tell?

HS> How do you start your app on this server? `rails s` or ... ?

>> One of the things that is confusing me is I have a file
>>  /etc/apache2/sites-available/ThisWorks.com.conf

>> How does Apache know which *.conf file to use?

HS> The VirtualHost/ServerName/ServerAlias directives -- if you tried
HS> to access a different hostname on that same IP address it would
HS> just show the default host (from sites-available).

>> Is there a book you can point me at that goes through this stuff in much
>> greater detail?

HS> I have no idea about a book; there are probably lots of tutorials out
HS> there. The config files are super well-commented, though, and I'd
HS> just start there, along with the online docs.

HS> Note: the Apache httpd is based on Rob McCool's original NCSA
HS> server circa 1993 so it's pretty "battle-tested" and that includes the
HS> documentation :-)

HS> --
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HS> twitter: @hassan
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Ralph