Solve “The Alias directive in … will probably never match because ir overlaps an earlier Alias”

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This is a warning that happens when starting Apache2.

$ sudo service apache2 restart
 * Restarting web server apache2                                                [Wed May 08 11:55:52 2013] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
 ... waiting [Wed May 08 11:55:54 2013] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
                                                                         [ OK ]

It is caused because the configuration for phpMyAdmin is loaded 2 times: in /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf and /etc/apache2/apache2.conf with an include to /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf.

To get rid of this warning just comment out this line in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
Apachealias, phpMyAdmin

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2 Comments.

  1. coldhands Sunday August 4th, 2013 at 03:23 AM

    great, thank you!

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  2. Glenn Dixon Friday August 16th, 2013 at 03:10 AM

    Thanks so much! Trying to squash a LAMP bug and found the Alias error while I was at it.

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