: Why is my subdomain not returning anything? I've set up DNS record to test out using virtual hosts prior to moving one of my wordpress installs out of a subdomain. I want to move from mysite.com/blog

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I've set up DNS record to test out using virtual hosts prior to moving one of my wordpress installs out of a subdomain. I want to move from mysite.com/blog to blog.mysite.com.

I've tested the DNS resolution for blog.mysite.com with ping and I get a response with the correct public IP address.

Pinging blog.mysite.com [x.xxx.xx.xx] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from x.xxx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=62
Reply from x.xxx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=62
Reply from x.xxx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=62
Reply from x.xxx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=62

Ping statistics for x.xxx.xx.xx:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 60ms, Average = 55ms


But trying to connect using Chrome I get:

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to vhosts.youngbullindustries.com


And through telnet:

telnet blog.mysite.com 80
Connecting To blog.mysite.com...Could not open connection to
the host, on port 80: Connect failed


I've tried to tail /apache2/access.log but nothing shows up when I make a request (the level is set to debug). I was expecting to see something here but there's nothing at all. What could be going wrong and what should I try next to diagnose the problem?

Edited to add:

The server is running Raspbian, so Debian-style Apache 2.

vhosts file, /etc/apache2/sites-available/blog looks like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName blog.mysite.com ServerAlias blog.mysite.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/blog
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel debug

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>


There's also an .htaccess file in /var/www/blog/.htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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