Can someone tell me how to set up a test environment for which no valid websites have been setup yet: i.e. a test environment which I can use locally within my own network to experiment with ISPconfig ? I have setup ISPconfig and can access and create everything. I just do not know how to handle DNS and IP addresses to access a website on the testserver. The IP address of the server is 192.168.1.47, so only a local address. So how do I set it up so I can access a client website created on this server ? Thanks, Idso.
Just install a loacl ispconfig server, e.g. in a virtual machine (or use one of the ready installed vmware images here from howtoforge). The simulate dns like this http://www.faqforge.com/linux/contr...ess-a-namebased-website-without-a-dns-record/ to access your local websites.
Ok, thanks. I was referring to any setup within ISPConfig. If I access the server as described above, I get to the main website of the server, but not the website of a client. How do I get to the website of the client ? Is there something to add in ISPconfig ?
The method I posted above is used to access the website of a client. Just add the domain of the website that you want to add to the hosts file of your desktop.
I think that I am not explaining myself correctly: I have installed a testserver (debian-server.brouwer.local) with the IP-address 192.168.1.47 and I installed ISPConfig3 on it. I then created a client and a user and added the IP-address 192.168.1.50 for that user/client and for that client created a website named test.org so test.org zhould be reachable under 192.168.1.50 All of these domains are purely local and do not exist; I am only trying to create a test-environment. Now when I go to 192.168.1.50 I do not reach the client website (address not found). When I go to 192.168.1.47 I reach the main website of the server, but not of the client. Obviously I did something incorrect in setting up the client or the clientwebsite, but from the documentation I can not figure out what. Thanks, Idso Brouwer
I fully understood which setup you made and I posted you what to do to reach the website alreayd in post #2. Edit the hosts file of your desktop and add the domain of your test website there. Windows, Mac and Linux have all a hosts file that you can edit.
Ok, so you sed the domain to access the website and not the IP address like you posted above after you added a line: 192.168.1.50 test.org in the hosts file? Did you yonfigure the IP address 192.168.1.50 in the network cards ettings fil of your test server, before you added it in ispconfig?
