ISPCongfig not responding

Hi all,

I have just installed ISPConfig and everything went ok and all was working fine, until suddenly it stopped working...

The URL you use to get to the CP doesn't work. All i have done after the install was change the admin password and added a site - that doesn't work either

Everything is seems to be up and running ok. i.e ISPConfig, Apache and MySQL

Although, I can get to my localhost website address

Any ideas why it just stopped working?

Any help will be great!!

SiMiE

 

Not to worry

Sorted it now... Somehow???

SiMiE

 

Maybe not then... i can access the CP from using the IP:81 - which is fine!

But i can not access any of my sites URL's??

 

If you are trying to access the domains within your private network, than one option to access it, is to add the IP and DOMAIN to the HOSTS file of the PC that you are using to access the domain.

In Windows the hosts file is located in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

Make sure that you restart your browser to read the new hosts file

 

Yeh i've had a look at my HOSTs file, it all looks ok.

ATM i will only want to access internally but eventually externally

Using Fedora Core 6 BTW

 

So the fedora core is on the PC that you are using to access the "local" website.

If so, your hosts looks fine (I think). That is, if 123.123.123.123 is your LAN IP of the server, and simie.homedns.org is the domain.

Are you still having the problem accessing simie.homedns.org within your LAN?

 

Yes my sites are on fedora and i can access simie.homedns.org on that computer but not on another computer on my local network...

But if i create a new site in ISPConfig called forum.simie.homedns.org i cannot access that either on my fedora server nor any of my other pcs...

Also, I cannot access the ISPConfig CP from anyother computer either!!

I only have a single ip for my server which if i goto that i get the ISPConfig page stating that it is a shared ip - so type the web URL instead which is correct

I have looked at my router settings and i have added the port fowardings for ports like 80 and 81 etc... to point to my servers static ip

 

You will need to add: "123.123.123.123 simie.homedns.org simie" to all hosts files on every PC on your LAN.
(you need to do the same for any other domain that you create, and that you want to access within your LAN)

Again make sure that 123.123.123.123 is the LAN IP of the server.

The HOSTS file on all othe LAN PC's will tell the PC that simie.homedns.org (or whatever other domain) is on: 123.123.123.123

 

Yeh, i would think this would work, but i dont think it should be required... because if i get the websites working externally to the LAN, i.e. WAN, this wont be required

 

Ok, but why doesn't my simie.homedns.org work externally that should work right?? (based on my previous posts)

Then when i create a a site in ISPconfig, that will just add an extra vhost and go to that site when the sub-domain is entered in the URL

Are these the only things it need to check are setup correctly?

- Router port forwarding for 80 and 81 - (Others for mail etc...)
- DynDns IP is correct
- Hosts file on Server
- Static IP for server correct
- Services all running (httpd, mysql etc...)
- Apache config file
- Apache/ISPConfig vhost file for sub-domains, i.e. sites

Any other items i need to check??

Thanks,
SiMiE

 

Maybe your IP changed, and it did not update at homedns.org?

When I ping simie.homedns.org it resolves to an IP, but gives me a timeout

Does your WAN IP end with 94.118?

 

Yes my IP does end in 94.118 and that is correct on dyndns. I have ddclient setup on my server which updates this for me automatically. Then i port foward it on my router to my server IP

I have previously had this working on fedora and windows machines externally... so it doesn't look like my ISP has blocked these ports

SiMiE

 

Do you still use the same router? Because if you now use another router, it's possible that it doesn't support loopbacks.
Also, did you disable SELinux on your server?

 

Yes i am using the same router as before... my router is a Linksys WRT300N

and SELinux has been disabled. My setup is from http://www.howtoforge.com/installing_a_lamp_system_with_fedora_core_6, which says to disable it...

SiMiE

 

I can't connect to simie.homedns.org on port 80.
Please check again if your router forwards port 80 to your server, and that no firewall is blocking port 80. Also, APache must be running on the server.