main shared IP showing user's site

[Stellar]

First off, is there any way to make the main shared IP different from the one I use to access the WHM? This isn't' a problem, just a preference.

The actual problem here is that if someone looks up the IP for a site, then visits that IP, they will see the website of a different client on our server. This also happens if someone visits mail.domain.com via http. I would much rather return a "There is no website configured at this address" page in this case.

Thank you.

 

[nerdzoll]

Hey,
THere is a way to do this (had to get help from the cpanel guys) but it entails creating virtual hosts in the .htaccess files.. i can try to rustle up the details if you would like... PM me.

But by creating this addition in your .htaccess file, if there is no website configured at that addy it will just come up with a cpanel page stating so.

Cheers
NErdzoll

 

[Karthick]

Put this in httpd.conf and restart Apache

NameVirtualHost x.x.x.x:80

Where x.x.x.x is the shared IP.

 

[Stellar]

Thanks for your help. I peiced together what to do based on your suggestions.

The

NameVirtualHost x.x.x.x:80

was already in my httpd.conf.
I needed to add

<VirtualHost 123.123.123.123>
ServerAlias 123.123.123.123
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /usr/local/cpanel/htdocs
BytesLog domlogs/123.123.123.123-bytes_log
ServerName 123.123.123.123
CustomLog domlogs/123.123.123.123.com combined
</VirtualHost>

to httpd.conf, and I was good to go.
I think this would be a good thing to have set by default. It'd weird out some nosy user if he found out his site's IP, browsed to it, and saw someone else's site.

 

[maxisgamer.net]

Once you edit the config, restart Apache, either from shell or from WHM. To start from shell, type:

http restart httpd

From WHM, go to restart services and click HTTPD.

Merry Christmas People!

Aaron Reilly
Server Admin
www.maxisgamer.net