Complete newbie questions

I've been browsing through this forum and through the ISPconfig documentation and I'm completely lost. I'll begin with the fact that I am currently running a webserver and it's only accessable remotely by the IP address. I've actually got these domain purchased by a registrar: plastikracing.net and vasceria.com.

I'm trying to figure out how to setup a domain (fedexunderground.com) to run from my computer. I've installed ISPconfig successfully and I've been messing with a lot of things in the admin section (localhost:81). I've got so many questions I don't even know where to begind. Basically, the FedEx site I'm working on was originally located at 65.186.87.93/fedex1 and now I'd like to set it up to www.fedexunderground.com. Stuff like the DNS servers I'm not sure what to enter. I saw in the documentation that the example showed 2 IP addresses, but I ony have one IP address.

Can anyone help? I'm completely unsure as where to begin.

 

I'll try to help you, but you have to make some things a littlbe bit clearer.

Am I right that you can specifiy which IP address the domains should point to?

Does your computer have a fixed IP address? Or is it connected with a dialup account with flexible IP addresses?

 

I have a static IP address from my cable company (65.186.87.93) and I setup this computer that I'm on to have a static IP on 192.168.1.110.

 

Then you must point the DNS records for fedexunderground.com to 65.186.87.93 and forward port 80 from your router to your ISPconfig system. Afterwards, create a web site for fedexunderground.com with ISPConfig (if you haven't already).

 

So I don't need to purchase the domain fedexunderground.com to be able to do this? I can't even get BIND to work correctly. It says it's offline and I have no idea what I put for my nameserver 1 and 2. Here is what I currently have:

 

Alright. The domain is purchased and I currently have it forwarding to my IP. I just can't figure out how to set this up so instead of forwarding www.fedexunderground.com to my IP, I can use nameservers and have the site work that way.

 

Code:

[root@localhost tristan]# /etc/init.d/named start
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
/etc/named.conf:3: change directory to '/var/named/chroot/var/named' failed: file not found

/etc/named.conf:3: parsing failed
                                                           [FAILED]
[root@localhost tristan]#

 

Which distribution do you use? What's in /etc/named.conf?

 

I'm using Fedora Core 5 and named.conf is completely blank.

 

/etc/named.conf is completely empty? Why does the error state that there's an error in line 3 of /etc/named.conf?

 

Appearantly I tried to view the file as a regular user and not sudo. Here it is:

Code:

options {
        pid-file "/var/named/chroot/var/run/named/named.pid";
        directory "/var/named/chroot/var/named";
        auth-nxdomain no;
        /*
         * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
         * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
         * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
         * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
         * port by default.
         */
        // query-source address * port 53;
};

//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "named.ca";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "named.local";
};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "pri.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa";
};


zone "fedexunderground.com" {
        type master;
        file "pri.fedexunderground.com";
};



//// MAKE MANUAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS LINE! ////

 

Code:

[root@localhost tristan]# cd /var/named/chroot/var/named/
[root@localhost named]# ls
data
localdomain.zone
localdomain.zone.2006-04-23_03-34-45.371890000
localdomain.zone.2006-04-23_03-34-49.051259000
localhost.zone
localhost.zone.2006-04-23_03-34-45.382151000
localhost.zone.2006-04-23_03-34-49.061204000
named.broadcast
named.broadcast.2006-04-23_03-34-45.392309000
named.broadcast.2006-04-23_03-34-49.070353000
named.ca
named.ca.2006-04-23_03-34-45.402983000
named.ca.2006-04-23_03-34-49.080780000
named.ip6.local
named.ip6.local.2006-04-23_03-34-45.413590000
named.ip6.local.2006-04-23_03-34-49.090616000
named.local
named.local.2006-04-23_03-34-45.424637000
named.local.2006-04-23_03-34-49.099791000
named.zero
named.zero.2006-04-23_03-34-45.435183000
named.zero.2006-04-23_03-34-49.109058000
pri.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
pri.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa~
pri.fedexunderground.com
pri.fedexunderground.com~
slaves
[root@localhost named]#

 

Please do this:

Code:

chmod 755 /var/named/
chmod 775 /var/named/chroot/
chmod 775 /var/named/chroot/var/
chmod 755 /var/named/chroot/var/named/
chmod 775 /var/named/chroot/var/run/
chmod 777 /var/named/chroot/var/run/named/
cd /var/named/chroot/var/named/
ln -s ../../ chroot

 

Alright. That works. I started 'named' with no issues. Now, I need to figure out how to setup ISPconfig.

 

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_fedora_core_5
http://www.ispconfig.org/manual_installation.htm

 

Alright, this is one step I don't know of.



Right now my hostname is 'localhost.localdomain' What exactly would I enter for the "host.domain.com" part? I've got 3 domains that I've purchased. Those are mentioned in the 1st post. Before when I've changed it just to see what happened, it took nearly 15 - 20 minutes to boot up. It would stay on the 'resolving hostname' screen.

 

Let's say you have bought the domain example.com. Create the hostname server1.example.com (I hope your registry has a web interface where you can create this DNS record) and point it to your server's public IP address. Then enter server1.example.com for host.domain.com.

 

Well, I was able to go in and add a DNS like you see at the bottom:



When I installed FC5 (like the image above), I entered server.vasceria.com. So, in my registrar I added the host 'server.vasceria.com' with the IP leading to my computer. Is this correct?