Multiple Domain pointing to sub-domains on my local machine.

Question

Here what I am hoping to do:
I have multiple sub-domains (only some listed below) setup on my local computer that I use to access local testing folders. I would like to also be able to access these domains from outside my network. Also I have an airport extreme which is forwarding http traffic to my Mac. (That works, I have tested it.) So far I have been able to get basic forwarding to my root sites folder to work, but not the sub-domains.
How can I setup my system so that people can use different no-ip.com urls to get to different sub-domains or folders on my Mac?
Below is my virtual hosts in apache, my /etc/host file and a my no-ip.com domain is: ***.serve**.com
Thank you so much for all your help.
-Alex
[email protected]
/etc/host:
# Host Database
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 gweather.akutech.local
apache vhosts:
### Section 3: Virtual Hosts
# VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#edit /etc/hosts add new servers sudo pico /etc/hosts
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
# NameVirtualHost *
### WebDAV Server
Alias /dav/ "/Users/alexku/Sites/ TESTING/dav/"
DAVLockDB davlocks/DAVLockDB
<Directory "/Users/alexku/Sites/ TESTING/dav/">
DAV On
AuthName 'WebDAV'
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/.htpasswd
require valid-user
Options -Indexes
</Directory>
##AKUTECH HOSTS LOCAL
NameVirtualHost *
#MAIN
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/Users/alexku/Sites/"
ServerName localhost
<Directory "/Users/alexku/Sites/">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
Options All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#GORDON SCHOOL WEATHER
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/Users/alexku/Sites/weather.gordonschool.org/"
ServerName gweather.akutech.local
<Directory "/Users/alexku/Sites/weather.gordonschool.org/">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
Options All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
p.s Sorry for the odd formating of the files.

Answer 1

You cannot have multiple "<VirtualHost *>" directives. This indicates to apache that the following configuration is the default, and you can't have multiple defaults.
The solution is to change this line to indicate which site you're configuring.
For example:
<VirtualHost some.site.com:80>
 # configuration for some.site.com here
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost other.site.com:80>
 # configuration for other.site.com here
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
 # catch-all defaults for unknown sites
</VirtualHost>