VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence

Posted on February 7, 2008 by antbrown

This is the warning I was getting:

[warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443,
the first has precedence

Go here for the solution to virtualhost overlap on port 80, it’s almost exactly the same.

And, this is how to fix the warning:

Add this line of code to your configuration file (usually httpd.conf or httpd-vhosts.conf)

NameVirtualHost *:443

I already had the line: “NameVirtualHost *:80″ which allowed me to have virtual hosts on the port 80, However later on I added a Virtual Host that operated on port 443 over SSL and I didn’t realize that I needed the line above.

I kept getting the same warning whenever I (re)started Apache but it didn’t seem to hinder the operation of anything so I left it at that.

Now it all boots up nice and clean, so I’m happy.

Hope this helps, I can’t say this will help in all instances of that warning, but it certainly fixed it up for me.

34 thoughts on “VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence”

Computer Dude on August 20, 2008 at 10:10 pm said:

Thanks, I was trying to figure this issue out for a while your post helped !
RHCE Candidate on October 9, 2008 at 7:14 am said:

Thanks for your posting. This is the sort of thing one never remembers (how often do we set-up this sort of thing?!?). Concise and helpful — `chown -R ant ~/base`
Me on September 6, 2009 at 7:23 pm said:

Thx, you save me !
Byebye !
Jose Antonio on September 18, 2009 at 8:35 pm said:

Thanks, it helped
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Alexis Wilke on September 27, 2009 at 9:29 am said:

Wow! I had that line commented because in the previous version of 2.x that I was running having that line turn ON created an error. So in other words they inverted the definition of the NameVirtualHost function…

And also I do not have it for port 80 and yet port 80 works just fine. Again, I’m surprised…

Thank you though, you shown up first in Google! 9-)
Alexis
YomGuy on October 23, 2009 at 11:17 am said:

Note that on Debian, this option is usually addable to /etc/apache2/ports.conf

Thanks !
Rick VanderHaas on October 28, 2009 at 5:11 pm said:

Or change the NameVirtualHost *:443 into the site name, for example in your config:
YannicK on November 17, 2009 at 7:23 pm said:

Thank you though, you shown up first in Google! 9-)
Nice ! Very Nice :p
immeÃ«mosol on February 24, 2010 at 2:35 pm said:

Didn’t work here (Ubuntu Jaunty),
in /etc/apache2/ports.conf it says
that NameBased VirtualHosts are not yet supported.

`Fixed` it by changing

to

… :S
little things …
immeÃ«mosol on February 24, 2010 at 2:37 pm said:

That should have read,
something like (hopefully) the following:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
to
<IfModule ssl_module>
Justin Smithies on March 7, 2010 at 6:57 pm said:

Thanks for that , that error was driving me nuts ! Still took a while to find where to put it in Ubuntu 9.04 . It goes in /etc/apache2/ports.conf just add the NameVirtualHost *:443 even though the comments in the file say its not supported it does work.
Alexis on April 24, 2010 at 8:40 pm said:

Wow, thanks. Upgrading from Apache 2.2.11 to 2.2.15 in Gentoo this fixed everything…

Unfortunatelly it took me two hours to find this post.

Thanks !
anon on April 28, 2010 at 7:23 pm said:

thanks. easy to read. concise, to the point. unlike other sites where you have to read 10 pages before they get to the point.
Josh on May 18, 2010 at 12:52 am said:

For me, the solution was making sure I didn’t have multiple “Listen 80 / Listen 443″ declarations in the various *.conf files I was loading.
Chris Steffen on September 3, 2010 at 2:03 am said:

For me, this occurred when I copied /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf to /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl_Orig.conf and restarted the httpd daemon. It seems that all *.conf files in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory are processed even if the name was made up. So the apache server got confused since the same commands were issued twice. I fixed it by moving my backup, “/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl_Orig.conf” to another directory and restarting httpd.
BladeMcCool on October 14, 2010 at 7:13 pm said:

yarb nice post, top on google for the phrase “_default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence”. just wanted to add my thanks to the pile. (the port 80 setting is in ports.conf in this 10.4 ubuntu/apache2 setup, put the 443 setting in there too
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Onjefu on November 24, 2010 at 5:00 am said:

I found your post via google too. This helped me big time! Thanks!
Tash Pemhiwa on December 6, 2010 at 8:49 am said:

Thanks Ant. Worked like a charm! And like BladeMcCool said, if you’re using Apache 2 on Ubuntu, you should add the NameVirtualHost directive to the file /etc/apache2/ports.conf. I started getting this warning when I applied an additional SSL certificate to another site hosted on the same server.
Adding a container for that particular domain caused the “[warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443,
the first has precedence” warning. I’m glad it’s fixed now! Thanks again!
Daryl Tucker on December 7, 2010 at 8:41 pm said:

In apache2, you will want to modify the ports.conf file, instead of apache2.conf or httpd.conf.
David Benfell on January 8, 2011 at 7:40 am said:

Pfft!!! My copy of the configuration file (and yes, for me, it too was in /etc/apache2/ports.conf) said there wasn’t support for NameVirtualHost on SSL yet.

But following this advice made the warning message go away.

Thank you very much.
Stephen on January 10, 2011 at 8:31 pm said:

I run apache2 on ubuntu 10.10 and I added NameVirtualHost *:443
to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf this fixed my error.
Wayne on February 4, 2011 at 2:25 am said:

Thanks for this – its the second time come across this issue and the second time your post helped me – thanks.
love-your-post on February 11, 2011 at 12:43 am said:

Amazing!

The same here: Ubuntu 10.10 and Apache2. Worked Now I can enjoy https addresses Thank you!
Torsten on March 31, 2011 at 2:05 pm said:

Thanks, that fixed the issue!

In SuSE/SLES the file is named
/etc/apache2/listen.conf
instead of ports.conf
Andy on May 27, 2011 at 7:41 pm said:

Thanks, worked great on Ubuntu. For me it was the ports.conf file.
Andy on June 24, 2011 at 4:03 pm said:

Thanks, this post has just been a big help. Love it when an answer just gets straight to the point.
Marcel Koch on August 18, 2011 at 11:34 am said:

Thank you very very much!

I agree with Andy in all points!
imogen on August 23, 2011 at 5:41 pm said:

best cut and paste fix to an annoying problem i’ve seen in a while – thanks.
Ravi on August 24, 2011 at 5:01 am said:

Thanks. Finally got SSL working.
Newbie on October 8, 2011 at 2:54 pm said:

Excellent post, saved me hours of head banging!
Anonymous on October 28, 2011 at 8:24 pm said:

Thank you very much! This is absolutely necessary when trying to use SNI.
Chris Smith on November 4, 2011 at 4:27 pm said:

Many thanks – straight to the point and fixed my problem.

Ant Brown

VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence

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