I have a Windows Domain Controller and we use it for DNS for our internal network. I have an Ubuntu box with an IP address of 172.16.34.149. Within the Windows DNS I created the forward and reverse lookup entries for the name Endymion.

Naturally when ever I FTP/SSH/HTTP/etc to the hostname Endymion it resolves correctly to my Ubuntu box.

I wanted to do some web development on this box for an existing site. There were problems when I placed the website in a subfolder of /var/www/. Let's just say it was in folder /var/www/projectx/. The issue involved the incorrect resolution of non-relative urls.

So I figure I could create a new DNS entry for the hostname projectx. Sure enough when I FTP/SSH/HTTP/etc to the hostname projectx it takes me to the same ubuntu box as the hostname Endymion...this is what I would expect. I now have two hostnames for the same box.

I then create a Virtualhost entry in httpd.conf that looks like the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot /var/www/projectx
        ServerName projectx
        ServerAlias projectx
</VirtualHost>

Sure enough when I go to a browser and type in http://projectx/ it takes me to the correct subfolder. Everything works!!!

Not so fast.

I then go to http://endymion/ and instead of taking me to /var/www/ it takes me to /var/www/projectx/

Clearly I'm missing something. Help please! ;)