Please help with Apache virtual servers and DNS trouble (I think)

[Dale Scott]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "freebsd" <freebsd at boosten.org>
> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Cc: "Dale Scott (dalescott at shaw)" <dalescott at shaw.ca>
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:38:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Please help with Apache virtual servers and DNS trouble (I think)

> Yes, tld (Top Level Domain) = .net. Your domain name is dalescott.net, and ‘www’
> (and others) are called hosts (which in DNS terminology are either A records or
> CNAMEs, if they refer to another A record).

Ok, thanks.

> I think you need a ServerName directive in your VirtualHost setup, so in the
> above example ServerName mantisbt.dalescott.net. Without that directive my hosts
> don’t work.

My hosts are all working, but perhaps it's because they are inheriting the hosts
directive from httpd.conf.

Now it seems the setup may be ok as-is! I logged into the linux vm and it doesn't
actually have a web server running! It seems vbox didn't modify the original vmdk,
which I take to mean anything written to the drive is kept in a Snapshot, and
snapshots are presumably applied when vbox loads the drive on startup. Could that
actually be how it works?